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All 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.

Honore de Balzac

There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Cure Medicine Temptation
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
A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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Change Conduct Himself Man Opinion Wasted Time
If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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Face Impossible People Society
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Drain Existence Fulfillment Vocation
I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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Carry Imagination Kiss Myself Possession Thinking
Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Choice Hard Life Yourself
Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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Food Hate Small Soul Vice
Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Born Journey Painful Poetry Thinking
A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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Doubt Himself Husband Jealous
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
A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Creation Genius Husband Marriage Woman
Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Hope Light Stimulation
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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Day Finding Happiness Yourself
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
People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Love People Suspect

All 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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All 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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