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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.

Honore de Balzac

The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Heart Necessary Opportunity Win Woman
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Happiness Hard Joy Moments Sorrow
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Greatness Power Talent Willing
Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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Greatness Growth Mom Passion Satisfaction Vice
I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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Carry Imagination Kiss Myself Possession Thinking
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
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
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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Difficult Easy Husband Love Simplicity Talk Time
Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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Destiny Live Maid Old Requirement Woman
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Lying Misery Misfortune Worst
No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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Discover Friendship Himself Man Way Wife
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Death Despair Happiness Man Spirit
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
In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Growth Love Time Woman
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Happiness Ignorance Moments
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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Finding Forgiveness Heart Mom Yourself

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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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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