Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
HONORE DE BALZACLove is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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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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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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All 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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