All human power is a compound of time and patience.
HONORE DE BALZACAn unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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