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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

Honore de Balzac

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
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
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Compound Human Patience Power Time
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
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
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
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Lying Misery Misfortune Worst
The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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Complete Feeling Goodness Help Inferior
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Hard Power Reveal Strike True
The more you judge, the less you love.
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Judge Love Yourself
Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Afraid Heart Jealous Spell
Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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Angel Compassionate Infinity Woman
What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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Double Feeling Friendship Love Myself
Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Acquire Pieces Virtue Whole Yourself
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

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