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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

Honore de Balzac

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Lying Misery Misfortune Worst
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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Forever Greatness Ideal Live Praise Presence World
If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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Feeling Fools History Judgement Life Man Secret Sorrow
Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Forget Life
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Need Solitude Yourself
Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Desire Knowledge Learning Vice
Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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Change Delight Happiness Instrument Position Woman
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
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
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Alcohol End Greatness Love Start
Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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Affection Hate Heart Human Rare Slope
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
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Hard Power Reveal Strike True
A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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Doubt Himself Husband Jealous
A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Dangerous Naked Oneself Skills Woman

Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

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