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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.

Honore de Balzac

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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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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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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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Death Expectation Man True
One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Happiness Hard Joy Moments Sorrow
Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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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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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Greatness Love Ourselves Self Love

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