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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

Honore de Balzac

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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Awake Goodness Husband Morning Sleep
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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Appetite Hungry Love Man Necessary Sex
Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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Angel Compassionate Infinity Woman
The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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Admire Book Cover Dress Elegant Rich
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Children Freedom Mom
Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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Beginning Poverty
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Happiness Ignorance Moments
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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Believe Force Husband Let Go Lying Media Public Yourself
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
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
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
Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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Food Hate Love Right Wrong
There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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Event History Lying Official Reality Reason Secret
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
Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Beautiful Capacity Forget Life Memories
We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Confront Moral Resource Solitude

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