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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.

Honore de Balzac

True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Difficult Love Lover Money True
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Need Solitude Yourself
Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Acquire Pieces Virtue Whole Yourself
Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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Live Man Marriage Occupation Professional Yourself
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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Destroy Insult Jealous Natural Possession
Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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Food Hate Love Right Wrong
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Compound Human Patience Power Time
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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Equality Forever Heart Love Poor True Violence Young
A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Dangerous Naked Oneself Skills Woman
As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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Excellence Family Generosity Money Poor Reasons Relative Rich Rule
It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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Instrument Love Man Music Musician Pieces Play Weird Woman
God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Actor Drama God Heaven Man Poet Writing
Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Art Effort Greatness Nature
We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Confront Moral Resource Solitude
A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Death Greatness Poet Writing
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

Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.

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