We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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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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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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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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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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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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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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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