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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

Honore de Balzac

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
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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Forever Greatness Ideal Live Praise Presence World
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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Credit Crime Forgiveness Love Ourselves Virtue Woman
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
Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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Boredom Coffee People
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
Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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Immense Love. Reveal
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
Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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Heart Light Love See Woman
A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Herself Husband Lover Teaching Wife
The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Greatness Love Ourselves Self Love
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
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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Face Man Open Sailor Sea Woman
There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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Event History Lying Official Reality Reason Secret
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 quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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Dance Quite Right Woman

What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

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