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

Honore de Balzac

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
Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Love Poetry Sense
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
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
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
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Compound Human Patience Power Time
A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Dangerous Naked Oneself Skills Woman
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
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
We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Confront Moral Resource Solitude
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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Equality Forever Heart Love Poor True Violence Young
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
The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Greatness Love Ourselves Self Love
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Courtesy General Selfish
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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Difficult Easy Husband Love Simplicity Talk Time
Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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Immense Love. Reveal

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

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