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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!

Honore de Balzac

The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Heart Necessary Opportunity Win Woman
True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Difficult Love Lover Money True
Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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Live Man Marriage Occupation Professional Yourself
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 more one judges, the less one loves.
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Judgement Love Oneself
Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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Beginning Poverty
Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Forget Life
The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Himself Husband Lover Man Silence
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
There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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Event History Lying Official Reality Reason Secret
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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Command Different Fact Kind Love Obedience Oneself Passion Quite
Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Love Poetry Sense
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
Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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Affection Hate Heart Human Rare Slope
Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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Catch Law Oneself Pass Small
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

How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!

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