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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.

Honore de Balzac

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
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Conversion Earth Equality Fact Power Right
We love because we love.
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Love One Liner
Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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Man Mischeif Woman
Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Forget Life
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Need Solitude Yourself
Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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Catch Law Oneself Pass Small
Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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Feature Himself Man Woman
The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Himself Husband Lover Man Silence
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.
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Forever Greatness Ideal Live Praise Presence World
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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Food Hate Small Soul Vice
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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Man Sheep Strength Willing Woman
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
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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Equality Forever Heart Love Poor True Violence Young
Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Desire Enjoyment Hope Memory
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

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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