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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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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Drain Existence Fulfillment Vocation
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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Complaint Kind Love Time Vaccination
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
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
He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Best Himself Love World
Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Future Investment Man Old Own Past Sorrow
As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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Anticipation Fear Greatness Lying Ourselves
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Event Person Result
Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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Change Delight Happiness Instrument Position Woman
Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Forget Life
People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Love People Suspect
Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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Man Mischeif Woman
Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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Live Man Marriage Occupation Professional Yourself
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
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Believe Immortal Marriage Oneself Soul
Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Choice Hard Life Yourself
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Familiar Marriage Monster Similar
Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Sensitive Victim Woman
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Children Freedom Mom
It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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Dance Quite Right Woman
There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Cure Medicine Temptation
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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Face Man Open Sailor Sea Woman
One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Life Love Ourselves Time
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Happiness Hard Joy Moments Sorrow
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Conversion Earth Equality Fact Power Right

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