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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

Honore de Balzac

At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Beautiful Promise Talent Woman
A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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Doubt Himself Husband Jealous
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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Complaint Kind Love Time Vaccination
The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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Believe Force Husband Let Go Lying Media Public Yourself
Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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Angry Character Measurement
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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Command Different Fact Kind Love Obedience Oneself Passion Quite
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Need Solitude Yourself
Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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Change Delight Happiness Instrument Position Woman
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
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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Equality Forever Heart Love Poor True Violence Young
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
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
Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Forget Life
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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Chivalry Love Oneself Service Wisdom
Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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Food Hate Love Right Wrong
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Happiness Hard Joy Moments Sorrow

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