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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

Honore de Balzac

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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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Chivalry Love Oneself Service Wisdom
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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Difficult Easy Husband Love Simplicity Talk Time
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
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Control Giant Operation
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
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
Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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Live Man Marriage Occupation Professional Yourself
A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Death Greatness Poet Writing
Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Sensitive Victim Woman
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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Doubt Power Yourself
Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Acquire Pieces Virtue Whole Yourself
How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Explanation Jealous Return
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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Crime Forget Fortune Reason Secret
In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Growth Love Time Woman
The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Greatness Love Ourselves Self Love
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

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