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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

Honore de Balzac

Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Future Investment Man Old Own Past Sorrow
When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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Attack Fall People Religion Rich Royal
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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Doubt Power Yourself
Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Beautiful Capacity Forget Life Memories
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Alcohol End Greatness Love Start
Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Affect Case Heart Reason Wound
Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Choice Hard Life Yourself
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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Face Man Open Sailor Sea Woman
People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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Fortune Happiness Misfortune Ourselves People
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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Beginning Coffee Fall Ideas Ink Paper Smile
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
I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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Carry Imagination Kiss Myself Possession Thinking
Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Afraid Heart Jealous Spell
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Greatness Power Talent Willing
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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Excellence Family Generosity Money Poor Reasons Relative Rich Rule
The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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Admire Book Cover Dress Elegant Rich

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