In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
HONORE DE BALZACAll 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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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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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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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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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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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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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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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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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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