In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
HONORE DE BALZACThe first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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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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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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A 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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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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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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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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