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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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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Drain Existence Fulfillment Vocation
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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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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Beginning Poverty
Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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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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Divine Introduction Life Mom Poverty World Youth
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Equality Forever Love Pure True
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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