An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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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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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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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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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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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.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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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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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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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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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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