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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.

Honore de Balzac

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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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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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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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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 secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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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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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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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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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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