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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.

Honore de Balzac

A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Compare Creature Man Poor Woman
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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Day Finding Happiness Yourself
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
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
Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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Love Mutual Poet Privilege Sorrow
There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Cure Medicine Temptation
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
Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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Man Physical Time 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
A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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Doubt Himself Husband Jealous
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
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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Chivalry Love Oneself Service Wisdom
Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Forget Life
Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Happiness Man Possession Relationship Woman
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
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Familiar Marriage Monster Similar

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