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.
HONORE DE BALZACThere are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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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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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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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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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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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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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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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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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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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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