Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
HONORE DE BALZACTalent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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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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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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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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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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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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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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