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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

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
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Action Difficult Easy Notice
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Control Giant Operation
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Need Solitude Yourself
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 man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Himself Husband Lover Man Silence
He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Best Himself Love World
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
Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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Divine Introduction Life Mom Poverty World Youth
No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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Dare Love Motive Natural Woman
Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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Live Man Marriage Occupation Professional Yourself
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
Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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Change Delight Happiness Instrument Position Woman
Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Future Investment Man Old Own Past Sorrow
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

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