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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.

Honore de Balzac

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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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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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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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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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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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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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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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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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