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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

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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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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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Complete Feeling Goodness Help Inferior
A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Compare Creature Man Poor Woman
Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Forget Live Secret Strong
Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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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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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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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
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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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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Death Expectation Man True
How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Explanation Jealous Return
It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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Dance Quite Right Woman
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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Face Man Open Sailor Sea Woman
A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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