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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

Honore de Balzac

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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
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
Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Beautiful Capacity Forget Life Memories
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
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
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
To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Choice Happiness Herself Love Man Wife
In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Growth Love Time Woman
What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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Double Feeling Friendship Love Myself
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Original Resistance Time Woman
How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Explanation Jealous Return
Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Greatness Mindset Misfortune See Virtue
Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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Beginning Poverty
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
Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Forget Live Secret Strong
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Drain Existence Fulfillment Vocation

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