Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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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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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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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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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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