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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.

Honore de Balzac

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
Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Forget Life
What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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Double Feeling Friendship Love Myself
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
As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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Excellence Family Generosity Money Poor Reasons Relative Rich Rule
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Believe Immortal Marriage Oneself Soul
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
I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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Carry Imagination Kiss Myself Possession Thinking
A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Herself Husband Lover Teaching Wife
Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Afraid Heart Jealous Spell
To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Choice Happiness Herself Love Man Wife
The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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Admire Book Cover Dress Elegant Rich
Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Love Poetry Sense
Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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Man Physical Time Woman
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
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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Doubt Power Yourself

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