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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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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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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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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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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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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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