Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
HONORE DE BALZACArt’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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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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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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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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