Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
From Honore de Balzac
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
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