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

Honore de Balzac

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Action Difficult Easy Notice
Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Love Poetry Sense
He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Best Himself Love World
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
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
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
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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Destroy Insult Jealous Natural Possession
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
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Courtesy General Selfish
A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Dangerous Naked Oneself Skills Woman
Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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Art Artist Feeling Heart Herself Love Touch Word
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Death Despair Happiness Man Spirit
Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Happiness Man Possession Relationship Woman
Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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Angel Compassionate Infinity Woman
One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Life Love Ourselves Time
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

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

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