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Honore de Balzac

People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Love People Suspect
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Conversion Earth Equality Fact Power Right
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
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
It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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Instrument Love Man Music Musician Pieces Play Weird 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
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
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Happiness Ignorance Moments
A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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Fond Happiness Memories Mom Pass
The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Defeat Orphan Parents Victory
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Need Solitude 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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Human Leadership Liberty Lost System Win
Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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Heart Money Treasure Yourself
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
Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Account Estimate Form Man Opinion Wife World
Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Cruelty Hands Togetherness

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