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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.

Honore de Balzac

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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Crime Forget Fortune Reason Secret
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
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
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Event Person Result
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
Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Hope Light Stimulation
Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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Live Man Marriage Occupation Professional Yourself
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
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
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Need Solitude Yourself
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Equality Forever Love Pure True
Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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Angel Compassionate Infinity Woman
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Hard Power Reveal Strike True
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Bond Greatness Relationship Sick Yourself
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
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

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