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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

Honore de Balzac

In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Growth Love Time Woman
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
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
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Need Solitude Yourself
Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Desire Enjoyment Hope Memory
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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Crime Forget Fortune Reason Secret
A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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Change Conduct Himself Man Opinion Wasted Time
Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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Man Mischeif Woman
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
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
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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Care Greatness Heart Man Mistake Tranquility
A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Herself Husband Lover Teaching Wife
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
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 naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Dangerous Naked Oneself Skills Woman
Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Desire Knowledge Learning Vice

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

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