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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Honore de Balzac

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
Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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Angel Compassionate Infinity Woman
Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Born Journey Painful Poetry Thinking
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
He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Best Himself Love World
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Event Person Result
If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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Face Impossible People Society
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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Difficult Easy Husband Love Simplicity Talk Time
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
Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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Destiny Live Maid Old Requirement Woman
People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Love People Suspect
How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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Better Failure Quality Vice Virtue
God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Actor Drama God Heaven Man Poet Writing
If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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Feeling Fools History Judgement Life Man Secret Sorrow
Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Gratitude Happiness Love Pleasure
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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Food Hate Love Right Wrong

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

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