He who best knows the world will love it least.
HONORE DE BALZACThere is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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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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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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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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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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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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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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