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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
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Familiar Marriage Monster Similar
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Art Humanity Passion Religion Romance Universal Wasted
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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Doubt Power Yourself
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
If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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Face Impossible People Society
People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Love People Suspect
Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Afraid Heart Jealous Spell
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
Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Greatness Mindset Misfortune See Virtue
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
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Greatness Power Talent Willing
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
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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Intelligence Love Ugly Woman
Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Art Effort Greatness Nature
We love because we love.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

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