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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.

Honore de Balzac

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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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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.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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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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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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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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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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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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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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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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