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Temperament is the thermometer of character.

Honore de Balzac

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
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Event Person Result
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Greatness Power Talent Willing
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Alcohol End Greatness Love Start
Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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Angel Compassionate Infinity Woman
A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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Change Conduct Himself Man Opinion Wasted Time
Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Desire Enjoyment Hope Memory
Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Forget Live Secret Strong
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
We love because we love.
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Love One Liner
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
No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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Discover Friendship Himself Man Way Wife
Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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Boredom Coffee People
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
Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Afraid Heart Jealous Spell
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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Finding Forgiveness Heart Mom Yourself

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