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He who best knows the world will love it least.

Honore de Balzac

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
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
A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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Change Conduct Himself Man Opinion Wasted Time
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
The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Defeat Orphan Parents Victory
A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Dangerous Naked Oneself Skills Woman
To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Choice Happiness Herself Love Man Wife
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Event Person Result
No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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Discover Friendship Himself Man Way Wife
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Compound Human Patience Power Time
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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Forever Greatness Ideal Live Praise Presence World
One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Life Love Ourselves Time
He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Best Himself Love World
The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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Close Greatness Mad Man Mark Original Talent
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
A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Death Greatness Poet Writing

He who best knows the world will love it least.

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