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 BALZACThe more you judge, the less you love.
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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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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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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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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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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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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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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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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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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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