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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

Honore de Balzac

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
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Lying Misery Misfortune Worst
Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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Love Mutual Poet Privilege Sorrow
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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Divine Introduction Life Mom Poverty World Youth
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Event Person Result
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
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Equality Forever Love Pure True
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Children Freedom Mom
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Control Giant Operation
There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Cure Medicine Temptation
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
Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Choice Hard Life 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
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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Feature Flower Intuition Persistence Small Thinking
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Bond Greatness Relationship Sick Yourself
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

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