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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

Honore de Balzac

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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Attack Fall People Religion Rich Royal
Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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Man Mischeif Woman
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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Crime Forget Fortune Reason Secret
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
A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Herself Husband Lover Teaching Wife
A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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Fond Happiness Memories Mom Pass
The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Himself Husband Lover Man Silence
Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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Love Mutual Poet Privilege Sorrow
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Action Difficult Easy Notice
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Equality Forever Love Pure True
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Need Solitude Yourself
Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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Human Leadership Liberty Lost System Win
There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Cure Medicine Temptation
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
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
Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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Greatness Growth Mom Passion Satisfaction Vice

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