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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.

Honore de Balzac

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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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Day Finding Happiness Yourself
Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Art Effort Greatness Nature
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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Change Conduct Himself Man Opinion Wasted Time
At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Beautiful Promise Talent Woman
Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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Human Leadership Liberty Lost System Win
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Lying Misery Misfortune Worst
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Courtesy General Selfish
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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Chivalry Love Oneself Service Wisdom
I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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Carry Imagination Kiss Myself Possession Thinking
There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Cure Medicine Temptation
As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Generosity Poor Rule
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Happiness Ignorance Moments
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Alcohol End Greatness Love Start
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Control Giant Operation
Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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Affection Hate Heart Human Rare Slope
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
Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Love Poetry Sense
The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Judgement Love Oneself
The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Defeat Orphan Parents Victory
A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Herself Husband Lover Teaching Wife
Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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Change Charm Creature Heart Herself Woman
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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Crime Forget Fortune Reason Secret
A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Death Greatness Poet Writing
Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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Angry Character Measurement
God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Actor Drama God Heaven Man Poet Writing
Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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Man Mischeif Woman
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Death Despair Happiness Man Spirit

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