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All human power is a compound of time and patience.

Honore de Balzac

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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Day Finding Happiness Yourself
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
No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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Dare Love Motive Natural Woman
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
Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Choice Hard Life Yourself
Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Forget Life
All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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Courage Depend Energy Happiness Illusion Myself Work
Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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Change Charm Creature Heart Herself Woman
Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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Boredom Coffee People
Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Gratitude Happiness Love Pleasure
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
The more you judge, the less you love.
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Judge Love Yourself
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
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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Command Different Fact Kind Love Obedience Oneself Passion Quite
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Hard Power Reveal Strike True
Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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Catch Law Oneself Pass Small

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