The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
HONORE DE BALZACWoman 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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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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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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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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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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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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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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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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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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