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

Honore de Balzac

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
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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Complaint Kind Love Time Vaccination
Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Fast Growth Rich
One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Life Love Ourselves Time
In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Growth Love Time Woman
Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Greatness Mindset Misfortune See Virtue
Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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Human Leadership Liberty Lost System Win
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Control Giant Operation
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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Credit Crime Forgiveness Love Ourselves Virtue Woman
Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Sensitive Victim Woman
He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Best Himself Love World
Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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Change Delight Happiness Instrument Position Woman
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
People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Love People Suspect
Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Affect Case Heart Reason Wound
In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Children Family Intimate Life Moments Parents Willing

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