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.
HONORE DE BALZACVice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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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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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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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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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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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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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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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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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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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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