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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.

Honore de Balzac

How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Explanation Jealous Return
In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Growth Love Time Woman
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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Feeling Fools History Judgement Life Man Secret Sorrow
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Lying Misery Misfortune Worst
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
Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Sensitive Victim Woman
What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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Double Feeling Friendship Love Myself
Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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Food Hate Small Soul Vice
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Happiness Ignorance Moments
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
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
Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Love Poetry Sense
Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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Beginning Poverty
Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Fire Flame Genius Inspirational One Liner Talent
Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Greatness Mindset Misfortune See Virtue
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Need Solitude Yourself

A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.

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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.

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