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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.

Honore de Balzac

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Dive Happiness. Grave Pearl
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Alcohol End Greatness Love Start
Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Affect Case Heart Reason Wound
All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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Courage Depend Energy Happiness Illusion Myself Work
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Bond Greatness Relationship Sick Yourself
Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Gratitude Happiness Love Pleasure
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
Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Desire Enjoyment Hope Memory
How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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Better Failure Quality Vice Virtue
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
Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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Food Hate Small Soul Vice
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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Courage Easy Form Lesson Repeat Reward Teacher
Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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Destiny Live Maid Old Requirement Woman
A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Compare Creature Man Poor Woman
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Believe Immortal Marriage Oneself Soul
The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Himself Husband Lover Man Silence

There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.

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