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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

Honore de Balzac

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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Man Sheep Strength Willing Woman
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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Death Expectation Man True
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Original Resistance Time Woman
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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Care Greatness Heart Man Mistake Tranquility
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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Day Finding Happiness Yourself
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Happiness Hard Joy Moments Sorrow
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Need Solitude Yourself
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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Courage Depend Energy Happiness Illusion Myself Work
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Death Despair Happiness Man Spirit
The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Fools Himself Man Philosophy Wife
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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Close Greatness Mad Man Mark Original Talent
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
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Lying Misery Misfortune Worst
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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Destiny Live Maid Old Requirement Woman
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Control Giant Operation
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Action Difficult Easy Notice

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