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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

Honore de Balzac

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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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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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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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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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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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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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