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Temperament is the thermometer of character.

Honore de Balzac

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
People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Love People Suspect
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
Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Desire Enjoyment Hope Memory
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
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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Doubt Power Yourself
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
People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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Fortune Happiness Misfortune Ourselves People
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
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Happiness Ignorance Moments
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
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
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Hard Power Reveal Strike True
Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Forget Life
Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Born Journey Painful Poetry Thinking
Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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Divine Introduction Life Mom Poverty World Youth

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