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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.

Honore de Balzac

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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 smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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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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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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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 woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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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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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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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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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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