When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.

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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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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!

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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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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance

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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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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian, a treasure for a man of parts, and an abyss for a weakling.

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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

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