Honoré de Balzac - Happiness Quotes

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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

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Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.

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We are finite beings: there can be no infinite happiness for us. The soul that dreams it and pursues it will embrace but a shadow.

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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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She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her strength, her pride, and happiness are centered.

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