An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
HONORE DE BALZACAll 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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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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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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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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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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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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