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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

Honore de Balzac

The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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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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Greatness Growth Mom Passion Satisfaction Vice
Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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Man Physical Time Woman
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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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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Forever Greatness Ideal Live Praise Presence World
Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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Food Hate Love Right Wrong
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
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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Doubt Power Yourself
Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Art Effort Greatness Nature
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Alcohol End Greatness Love Start
Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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Dictionary Fools Gratitude Heart Man World
Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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Change Charm Creature Heart Herself Woman
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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Awake Goodness Husband Morning Sleep
A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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Fond Happiness Memories Mom Pass
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Drain Existence Fulfillment Vocation
Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Afraid Heart Jealous Spell

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

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