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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

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Familiar Marriage Monster Similar
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Drain Existence Fulfillment Vocation
Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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Angel Compassionate Infinity Woman
We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Confront Moral Resource Solitude
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
Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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Man Mischeif Woman
Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Gratitude Happiness Love Pleasure
Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Art Effort Greatness Nature
Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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Man Sheep Strength Willing Woman
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
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
Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Feeling Life Ourselves Simplicity
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
Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Forget Life
A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Herself Husband Lover Teaching Wife
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

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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