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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

Honore de Balzac

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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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