Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
HONORE DE BALZACExcess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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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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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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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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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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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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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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