Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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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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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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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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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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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.
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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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