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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

Honore de Balzac

People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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Fortune Happiness Misfortune Ourselves People
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
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
If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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Feeling Fools History Judgement Life Man Secret Sorrow
Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Born Journey Painful Poetry Thinking
The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Defeat Orphan Parents Victory
It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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Dance Quite Right Woman
Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Art Effort Greatness Nature
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
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Happiness Hard Joy Moments Sorrow
Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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Immense Love. Reveal
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Compound Human Patience Power Time
We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Confront Moral Resource Solitude
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
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Hard Power Reveal Strike True
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Happiness Ignorance Moments

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