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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

Honore de Balzac

To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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Forever Greatness Ideal Live Praise Presence World
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Death Despair Happiness Man Spirit
Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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Death Expectation Man True
Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Happiness Man Possession Relationship Woman
How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Explanation Jealous Return
Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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Change Delight Happiness Instrument Position Woman
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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Awake Goodness Husband Morning Sleep
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Event Person Result
There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Cure Medicine Temptation
Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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Appetite Hungry Love Man Necessary Sex
Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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Boredom Coffee People
Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Affect Case Heart Reason Wound
Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Choice Hard Life Yourself
Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Forget Life
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Control Giant Operation
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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Intelligence Love Ugly Woman

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