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

Honore de Balzac

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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
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Hard Power Reveal Strike True
There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Creation Genius Husband Marriage Woman
He who best knows the world will love it least.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Choice Happiness Herself Love Man Wife
Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Happiness Man Possession Relationship Woman
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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Face Man Open Sailor Sea Woman
Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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