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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

Honore de Balzac

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Dive Happiness. Grave Pearl
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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Doubt Power Yourself
Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Acquire Pieces Virtue Whole Yourself
People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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Fortune Happiness Misfortune Ourselves People
Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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Appetite Hungry Love Man Necessary Sex
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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Destroy Insult Jealous Natural Possession
To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Choice Happiness Herself Love Man Wife
Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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Food Hate Small Soul Vice
If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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Feeling Fools History Judgement Life Man Secret Sorrow
The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Judgement Love Oneself
Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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Man Physical Time Woman
Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Desire Knowledge Learning Vice
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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Destiny Live Maid Old Requirement Woman
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
Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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Catch Law Oneself Pass Small
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Event Person Result

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