The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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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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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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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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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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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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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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