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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.

Honore de Balzac

As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Generosity Poor Rule
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
The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Defeat Orphan Parents Victory
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 mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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Fond Happiness Memories Mom Pass
Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Greatness Mindset Misfortune See Virtue
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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Forever Greatness Ideal Live Praise Presence World
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
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
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
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
The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Fools Himself Man Philosophy Wife
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Alcohol End Greatness Love Start
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Familiar Marriage Monster Similar
Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Art Effort Greatness Nature
Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Forget Life

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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