He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
HONORE DE BALZACIn the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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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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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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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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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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