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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

Honore de Balzac

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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
Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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Food Hate Love Right Wrong
Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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Anticipation Fear Greatness Lying Ourselves
In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Children Family Intimate Life Moments Parents Willing
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
Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Desire Knowledge Learning Vice
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
Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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Dictionary Fools Gratitude Heart Man World
We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Confront Moral Resource Solitude
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
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Lying Misery Misfortune Worst
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Hard Power Reveal Strike True
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
People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Love People Suspect
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
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Equality Forever Love Pure True
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Believe Immortal Marriage Oneself Soul
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
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Event Person Result
How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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Better Failure Quality Vice Virtue
Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Art Effort Greatness Nature
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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Finding Forgiveness Heart Mom Yourself
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Happiness Hard Joy Moments Sorrow
One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Life Love Ourselves Time
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
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 man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Compare Creature Man Poor Woman

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