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.
HONORE DE BALZACExcess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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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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The more you judge, the less you love.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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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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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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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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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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