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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

Honore de Balzac

The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Defeat Orphan Parents Victory
When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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Attack Fall People Religion Rich Royal
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Bond Greatness Relationship Sick Yourself
A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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Change Conduct Himself Man Opinion Wasted Time
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Lying Misery Misfortune Worst
Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Future Investment Man Old Own Past Sorrow
Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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Food Hate Small Soul Vice
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
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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Day Finding Happiness Yourself
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
Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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Destiny Live Maid Old Requirement Woman
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Original Resistance Time Woman
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Children Freedom Mom
Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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Catch Law Oneself Pass Small
Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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Human Leadership Liberty Lost System Win
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

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