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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac 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.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac All human power is a compound of time and patience.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac
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Gloria SteinemGloria Steinem Call no man happy until he is dead.
SolonSolon The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
ThucydidesThucydides Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death–what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.
SophoclesSophocles knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy’s onset.
ThucydidesThucydides The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can’t change. After I die, I’ll probably come back as a paintbrush.
Sylvester StalloneSylvester Stallone I would suggest that the next generation stop looking for happiness outside of themselves but instead turn inward.
Gabrielle BernsteinGabrielle Bernstein Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
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