He who best knows the world will love it least.
HONORE DE BALZACThe heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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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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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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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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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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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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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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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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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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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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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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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 man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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