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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

Honore de Balzac

Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Account Estimate Form Man Opinion Wife 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
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Dive Happiness. Grave Pearl
Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Choice Hard Life Yourself
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
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
Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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Divine Introduction Life Mom Poverty World Youth
A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Herself Husband Lover Teaching Wife
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
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
Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Feeling Life Ourselves Simplicity
It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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Instrument Love Man Music Musician Pieces Play Weird Woman
He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Best Himself Love World
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
Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Fast Growth Rich
Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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Human Leadership Liberty Lost System Win

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

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