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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?

Honore de Balzac

All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Compound Human Patience Power Time
Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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Appetite Hungry Love Man Necessary Sex
Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Acquire Pieces Virtue Whole Yourself
Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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Greatness Growth Mom Passion Satisfaction Vice
Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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Catch Law Oneself Pass Small
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
How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Explanation Jealous Return
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
Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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Human Leadership Liberty Lost System Win
Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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Boredom Coffee People
It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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Dance Quite Right Woman
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Greatness Power Talent Willing
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Hard Power Reveal Strike True
Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Desire Knowledge Learning Vice
The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Heart Necessary Opportunity Win Woman
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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Care Greatness Heart Man Mistake Tranquility

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