There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
HONORE DE BALZACMemories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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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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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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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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We love because we love.
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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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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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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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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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