Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
HONORE DE BALZACDo you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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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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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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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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