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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.

Honore de Balzac

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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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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 may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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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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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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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 lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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