Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
HONORE DE BALZACWe cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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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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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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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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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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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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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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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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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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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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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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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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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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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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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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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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