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The more you judge, the less you love.

Honore de Balzac

All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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Courage Depend Energy Happiness Illusion Myself Work
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
Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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Man Sheep Strength Willing Woman
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Drain Existence Fulfillment Vocation
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Dive Happiness. Grave Pearl
How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Explanation Jealous Return
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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Command Different Fact Kind Love Obedience Oneself Passion Quite
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Happiness Ignorance Moments
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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Awake Goodness Husband Morning Sleep
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
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Happiness Hard Joy Moments Sorrow
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
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
There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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Event History Lying Official Reality Reason Secret
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Believe Immortal Marriage Oneself Soul
Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Forget Life

The more you judge, the less you love.

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