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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

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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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Dictionary Fools Gratitude Heart Man World
Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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Food Hate Small Soul Vice
As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Himself Husband Lover Man Silence
A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Herself Husband Lover Teaching Wife
How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Original Resistance Time Woman
Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Gratitude Happiness Love Pleasure
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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Awake Goodness Husband Morning Sleep
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
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
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Event Person Result
Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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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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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Beautiful Capacity Forget Life Memories
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

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