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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

Honore de Balzac

The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Himself Husband Lover Man Silence
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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Equality Forever Heart Love Poor True Violence Young
Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Forget Live Secret Strong
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
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
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
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Control Giant Operation
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
Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Desire Knowledge Learning Vice
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
Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Born Journey Painful Poetry Thinking
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Equality Forever Love Pure True
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
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Alcohol End Greatness Love Start
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Children Freedom Mom
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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Husband Lover Run Thinking Way

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

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