Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
HONORE DE BALZACMen die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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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 good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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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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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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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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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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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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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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