The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
HONORE DE BALZACA woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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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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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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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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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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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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