No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
HONORE DE BALZACLove, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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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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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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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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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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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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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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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 be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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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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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.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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Art’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, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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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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