Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
HONORE DE BALZACTo 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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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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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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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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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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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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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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