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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

Honore de Balzac

Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Sensitive Victim Woman
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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Love Mutual Poet Privilege Sorrow
Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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Immense Love. Reveal
Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Happiness Man Possession Relationship Woman
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Drain Existence Fulfillment Vocation
As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Generosity Poor Rule
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
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
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
Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Desire Enjoyment Hope Memory
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
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Hard Power Reveal Strike True
A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Herself Husband Lover Teaching Wife
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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Crime Forget Fortune Reason Secret
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Death Despair Happiness Man Spirit
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

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