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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.

Honore de Balzac

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
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Believe Immortal Marriage Oneself Soul
Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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Angel Compassionate Infinity Woman
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
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
I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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Carry Imagination Kiss Myself Possession Thinking
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
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
Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Hope Light Stimulation
A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Death Greatness Poet Writing
Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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Greatness Growth Mom Passion Satisfaction Vice
Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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Man Sheep Strength Willing Woman
Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Choice Hard Life Yourself
Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Art Effort Greatness Nature
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
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

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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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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