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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

Honore de Balzac

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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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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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