Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
HONORE DE BALZACLove is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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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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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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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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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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We love because we love.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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