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.
HONORE DE BALZACThe 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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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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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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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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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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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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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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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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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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