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.
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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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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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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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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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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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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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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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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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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