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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

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
A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Compare Creature Man Poor Woman
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Courtesy General Selfish
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Alcohol End Greatness Love Start
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
Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Forget Live Secret Strong
Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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Equality Forever Heart Love Poor True Violence Young
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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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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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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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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Chivalry Love Oneself Service Wisdom
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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Face Man Open Sailor Sea Woman
Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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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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Live Man Marriage Occupation Professional Yourself

What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

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