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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

Honore de Balzac

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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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Heart Light Love See Woman
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Art Humanity Passion Religion Romance Universal Wasted
Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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Command Different Fact Kind Love Obedience Oneself Passion Quite
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Courtesy General Selfish
Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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Human Leadership Liberty Lost System Win
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Happiness Hard Joy Moments Sorrow
When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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Attack Fall People Religion Rich Royal
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Alcohol End Greatness Love Start
A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Creation Genius Husband Marriage Woman
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
Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Forget Life
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Lying Misery Misfortune Worst
Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Fire Flame Genius Inspirational One Liner Talent
Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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Angry Character Measurement
He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Best Himself Love World
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Dive Happiness. Grave Pearl
Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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Greatness Growth Mom Passion Satisfaction Vice
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
People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Love People Suspect
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
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
People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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Heart Money Treasure Yourself
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
The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Judgement Love Oneself
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

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