Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
HONORE DE BALZACNothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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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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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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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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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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