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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.

Honore de Balzac

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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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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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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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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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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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