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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

Honore de Balzac

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
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Bond Greatness Relationship Sick Yourself
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Greatness Power Talent Willing
In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Growth Love Time Woman
Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Fire Flame Genius Inspirational One Liner Talent
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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Destroy Insult Jealous Natural Possession
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
Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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Anticipation Fear Greatness Lying Ourselves
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
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
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Courtesy General Selfish
How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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Better Failure Quality Vice Virtue
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
A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Death Greatness Poet Writing
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
Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Love Poetry Sense

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