Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
HONORE DE BALZACA woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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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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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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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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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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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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