No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
HONORE DE BALZACA mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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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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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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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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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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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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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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