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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

Honore de Balzac

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Equality Forever Love Pure True
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
In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Children Family Intimate Life Moments Parents Willing
A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Herself Husband Lover Teaching Wife
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Death Despair Happiness Man Spirit
The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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Admire Book Cover Dress Elegant Rich
The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Judgement Love Oneself
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
The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Greatness Love Ourselves Self Love
All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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Courage Depend Energy Happiness Illusion Myself Work
People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Love People Suspect
Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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Beginning Coffee Fall Ideas Ink Paper Smile
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
Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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Affection Hate Heart Human Rare Slope
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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Destroy Insult Jealous Natural Possession
Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Fast Growth Rich

Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

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