Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
HONORE DE BALZACVirtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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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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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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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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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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