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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

Honore de Balzac

True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Difficult Love Lover Money True
Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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Beginning Coffee Fall Ideas Ink Paper Smile
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
When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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Attack Fall People Religion Rich Royal
A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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Fond Happiness Memories Mom Pass
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Event Person Result
The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Judgement Love Oneself
If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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Face Impossible People Society
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Believe Immortal Marriage Oneself Soul
Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Cruelty Hands Togetherness
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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Command Different Fact Kind Love Obedience Oneself Passion Quite
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Action Difficult Easy Notice
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
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
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Need Solitude Yourself
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

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