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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.

Honore de Balzac

If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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Feeling Fools History Judgement Life Man Secret Sorrow
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
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
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
In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Growth Love Time Woman
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
Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Acquire Pieces Virtue Whole Yourself
One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Life Love Ourselves Time
The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Himself Husband Lover Man Silence
Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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Human Leadership Liberty Lost System Win
God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Actor Drama God Heaven Man Poet Writing
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
Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Greatness Mindset Misfortune See Virtue
Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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Death Expectation Man True
Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Fast Growth Rich
A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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Doubt Himself Husband Jealous

The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.

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