Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
HONORE DE BALZACTo be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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