Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
HONORE DE BALZACHow can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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