Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
HONORE DE BALZACPeople exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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