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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

Honore de Balzac

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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Divine Introduction Life Mom Poverty World Youth
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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Believe Force Husband Let Go Lying Media Public Yourself
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Death Despair Happiness Man Spirit
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Action Difficult Easy Notice
Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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Heart Light Love See Woman
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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Forever Greatness Ideal Live Praise Presence World
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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Death Expectation Man True
The more you judge, the less you love.
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Judge Love Yourself
Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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Greatness Growth Mom Passion Satisfaction Vice
Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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Change Charm Creature Heart Herself Woman
The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Heart Necessary Opportunity Win Woman
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Equality Forever Love Pure True
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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Day Finding Happiness Yourself
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Alcohol End Greatness Love Start
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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Close Greatness Mad Man Mark Original Talent
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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