Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
HONORE DE BALZACTo be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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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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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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