Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
HONORE DE BALZACThe secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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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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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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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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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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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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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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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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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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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.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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