All human power is a compound of time and patience.
HONORE DE BALZACIn intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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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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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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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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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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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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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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