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Honore de
powerful sin repentance
Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.
people unhappiness unfortunate
People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
temptation cures
There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
couple fighting blessing
Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all undertakings to swear eternal love; the fight at once commences and victory, that is to say liberty, remains in the hands of the cleverer of the two.
women advice chivalry
My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one.
girl women thinking
A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry is endless, she shrouds herself in veil after veil, she satisfies every demand of man's vanity, the novice responds but to one.
men abandoned willing
Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.
men illegal profit
The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.
happiness sacrifice self-sacrifice
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.
art real lying
Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.
humility anti-bullying suffering
Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.
strong stress moving
However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will often, under the stress of passion, achieve heights of eloquence, in thought if not in language, and seem to move in some luminous sphere. Goriot's voice and gesture had at this moment the power of communication that characterizes the great actor. Are not our finer feelings the poems of the human will?
people drink pleasure
And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.
voice echoes faithful
A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.