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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

Honore de Balzac

God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Actor Drama God Heaven Man Poet Writing
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
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
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Need Solitude Yourself
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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Husband Lover Run Thinking Way
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Children Freedom Mom
Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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Heart Light Love See Woman
One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Life Love Ourselves Time
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Equality Forever Love Pure True
The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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Close Greatness Mad Man Mark Original Talent
A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Herself Husband Lover Teaching Wife
Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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Change Delight Happiness Instrument Position Woman
People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Love People Suspect
How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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Better Failure Quality Vice Virtue
Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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Appetite Hungry Love Man Necessary Sex
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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Destroy Insult Jealous Natural Possession

Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

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