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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

Honore de Balzac

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
Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Greatness Mindset Misfortune See Virtue
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Need Solitude Yourself
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
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
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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Crime Forget Fortune Reason Secret
A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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Fond Happiness Memories Mom Pass
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
Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Art Effort Greatness Nature
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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Finding Forgiveness Heart Mom Yourself
Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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Art Artist Feeling Heart Herself Love Touch Word
The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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Close Greatness Mad Man Mark Original Talent
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Event Person Result
Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Forget Live Secret Strong
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
People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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Fortune Happiness Misfortune Ourselves People

Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

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