How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
HONORE DE BALZACThe motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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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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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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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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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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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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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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