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life happiness courage
All happiness depends on courage and work.
passion dumb deaf
Passion is born deaf and dumb.
writing ink slave
I am a galley slave to pen and ink.
bread worship god-love
For the person who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience.
exaggeration-is literature bad-grades
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
men unexpected caprice
Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man
funny-love first-love love-is
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
loss secret crime
The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.
wedding flower wife
A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
solitude moral resources
We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
love hope passion
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
women mean liberty
The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.
virtue force misfortunes
Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues.
lying worry misery
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.