Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
HONORE DE BALZACTrue lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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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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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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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.
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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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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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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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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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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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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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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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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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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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