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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.

Honore de Balzac

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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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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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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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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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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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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.
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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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