We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
HONORE DE BALZACCoffee 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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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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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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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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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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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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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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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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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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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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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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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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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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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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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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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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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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