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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

Honore de Balzac

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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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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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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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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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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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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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