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Happiness Quotes by Honore de Balzac
- A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
- We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
- People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
- 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,…
- Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues.
- Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance
- All happiness depends on courage and work.
- We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.
- Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.
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