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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

Honore de Balzac

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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Desire Knowledge Learning Vice
A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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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
At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Beautiful Promise Talent Woman
Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Children Freedom Mom
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
Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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Angel Compassionate Infinity Woman
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
Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Desire Enjoyment Hope Memory
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Hard Power Reveal Strike True
The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Himself Husband Lover Man Silence
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Original Resistance Time Woman
Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Generosity Poor Rule
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
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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Angry Character Measurement
It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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Instrument Love Man Music Musician Pieces Play Weird Woman
The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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Complete Feeling Goodness Help Inferior
The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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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
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
Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Greatness Mindset Misfortune See Virtue

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