Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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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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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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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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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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