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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.

Honore de Balzac

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
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Drain Existence Fulfillment Vocation
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
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Action Difficult Easy Notice
The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Greatness Love Ourselves Self Love
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
A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Dangerous Naked Oneself Skills Woman
The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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Close Greatness Mad Man Mark Original Talent
The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Defeat Orphan Parents Victory
Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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Man Physical Time Woman
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
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Lying Misery Misfortune Worst
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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Day Finding Happiness Yourself
The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Judgement Love Oneself
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Death Despair Happiness Man Spirit
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

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