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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.

Honore de Balzac

Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Account Estimate Form Man Opinion Wife World
The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Fools Himself Man Philosophy Wife
God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Actor Drama God Heaven Man Poet Writing
Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Future Investment Man Old Own Past Sorrow
It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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Dance Quite Right Woman
The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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Admire Book Cover Dress Elegant Rich
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Original Resistance Time Woman
Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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Death Expectation Man True
Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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Beginning Poverty
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
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
Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Afraid Heart Jealous Spell
If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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Feeling Fools History Judgement Life Man Secret Sorrow
Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Art Effort Greatness Nature
Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Forget Live Secret Strong
Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Beautiful Capacity Forget Life Memories

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