The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
HONORE DE BALZACThere is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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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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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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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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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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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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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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