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

Honore de Balzac

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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Difficult Love Lover Money True
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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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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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Future Investment Man Old Own Past Sorrow
Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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Art Artist Feeling Heart Herself Love Touch Word
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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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
Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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Anticipation Fear Greatness Lying Ourselves
Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Desire Knowledge Learning 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 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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Feature Flower Intuition Persistence Small Thinking
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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Courage Easy Form Lesson Repeat Reward Teacher
Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Cruelty Hands Togetherness
Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Herself Husband Lover Teaching Wife

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