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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

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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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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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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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