Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
HONORE DE BALZACA mother who is really a mother is never free.
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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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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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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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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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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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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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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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