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Honore de Balzac

Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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Greatness Growth Mom Passion Satisfaction Vice
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Compound Human Patience Power Time
Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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Art Artist Feeling Heart Herself Love Touch Word
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
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Original Resistance Time Woman
At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Beautiful Promise Talent Woman
How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Explanation Jealous Return
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Alcohol End Greatness Love Start
If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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Face Impossible People Society
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
True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Difficult Love Lover Money True
A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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Fond Happiness Memories Mom Pass
Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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Appetite Hungry Love Man Necessary Sex
Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Love Poetry Sense
Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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Catch Law Oneself Pass Small
Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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Man Mischeif Woman

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