He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
HONORE DE BALZACOld men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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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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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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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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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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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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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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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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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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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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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.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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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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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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