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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

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
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
If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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Face Impossible People Society
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
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
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
People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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Fortune Happiness Misfortune Ourselves People
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
Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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Food Hate Love Right Wrong
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
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
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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Feature Flower Intuition Persistence Small Thinking
Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Account Estimate Form Man Opinion Wife World
He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Best Himself Love World
Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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Man Mischeif Woman
Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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Change Charm Creature Heart Herself Woman

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