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All human power is a compound of time and patience.

Honore de Balzac

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Action Difficult Easy Notice
People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Love People Suspect
Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Greatness Mindset Misfortune See Virtue
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Original Resistance Time Woman
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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Attack Fall People Religion Rich Royal
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
There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Cure Medicine Temptation
The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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Believe Force Husband Let Go Lying Media Public Yourself
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
Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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Food Hate Small Soul Vice
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
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
Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Choice Hard Life Yourself
One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Life Love Ourselves Time
I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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Carry Imagination Kiss Myself Possession Thinking
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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Difficult Easy Husband Love Simplicity Talk Time

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