A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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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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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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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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