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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.

Honore de Balzac

Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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Dictionary Fools Gratitude Heart Man World
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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Art Artist Feeling Heart Herself Love Touch Word
The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Heart Necessary Opportunity Win Woman
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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Forever Greatness Ideal Live Praise Presence World
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Death Despair Happiness Man Spirit
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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Beginning Coffee Fall Ideas Ink Paper Smile
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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Close Greatness Mad Man Mark Original Talent
Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Desire Knowledge Learning Vice
To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Choice Happiness Herself Love Man Wife
In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Growth Love Time Woman
A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Herself Husband Lover Teaching Wife
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Lying Misery Misfortune Worst
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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Love Mutual Poet Privilege Sorrow
Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Forget Life
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Believe Immortal Marriage Oneself Soul
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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Equality Forever Heart Love Poor True Violence Young

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