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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

Honore de Balzac

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
Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Desire Enjoyment Hope Memory
He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Best Himself Love World
A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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Courage Easy Form Lesson Repeat Reward Teacher
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
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Children Freedom Mom
Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Fast Growth Rich
The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Fools Himself Man Philosophy Wife
A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Dangerous Naked Oneself Skills Woman
As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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Excellence Family Generosity Money Poor Reasons Relative Rich Rule
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Event Person Result
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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Crime Forget Fortune Reason Secret
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Art Humanity Passion Religion Romance Universal Wasted
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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Credit Crime Forgiveness Love Ourselves Virtue Woman
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
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Conversion Earth Equality Fact Power Right

The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

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