All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
HONORE DE BALZACA good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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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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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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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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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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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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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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