Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
HONORE DE BALZACWoman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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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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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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We love because we love.
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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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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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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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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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