Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
HONORE DE BALZACNothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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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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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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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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