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

Honore de Balzac

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Courtesy General Selfish
Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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Affection Hate Heart Human Rare Slope
The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Fools Himself Man Philosophy Wife
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Believe Immortal Marriage Oneself Soul
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Need Solitude Yourself
Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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Beginning Coffee Fall Ideas Ink Paper Smile
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Familiar Marriage Monster Similar
Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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Change Charm Creature Heart Herself Woman
A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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Courage Easy Form Lesson Repeat Reward Teacher
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
Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Desire Knowledge Learning Vice
If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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Feeling Fools History Judgement Life Man Secret Sorrow
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Equality Forever Love Pure True
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
Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Feeling Life Ourselves Simplicity
The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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