Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
HONORE DE BALZACOur heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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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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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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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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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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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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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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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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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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