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 BALZACIf we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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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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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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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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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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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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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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