The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
HONORE DE BALZACCan 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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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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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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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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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.
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