Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
HONORE DE BALZACPower is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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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 is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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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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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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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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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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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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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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