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.
HONORE DE BALZACPhysically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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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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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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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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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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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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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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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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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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