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.
HONORE DE BALZACFirst love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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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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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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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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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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