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

Honore de Balzac

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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
Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Future Investment Man Old Own Past Sorrow
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Courtesy General Selfish
The more you judge, the less you love.
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Judge Love Yourself
Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Forget Live Secret Strong
Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Love Poetry Sense
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
Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Sensitive Victim Woman
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
Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Born Journey Painful Poetry Thinking
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
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
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
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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Intelligence Love Ugly 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
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Event Person Result
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
A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Herself Husband Lover Teaching Wife
As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Generosity Poor Rule
The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Heart Necessary Opportunity Win Woman
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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Equality Forever Heart Love Poor True Violence Young
Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Greatness Mindset Misfortune See Virtue
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
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Alcohol End Greatness Love Start
How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Explanation Jealous Return
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
Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Happiness Man Possession Relationship Woman

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