It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
HONORE DE BALZACOld men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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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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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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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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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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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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