Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
HONORE DE BALZACTo be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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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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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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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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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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