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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

Honore de Balzac

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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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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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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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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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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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