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Temperament is the thermometer of character.

Honore de Balzac

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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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Crime Forget Fortune Reason Secret
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
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
In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Growth Love Time Woman
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
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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Complaint Kind Love Time Vaccination
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Bond Greatness Relationship Sick Yourself
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
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
Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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Appetite Hungry Love Man Necessary Sex
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
He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Best Himself Love World
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
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Dive Happiness. Grave Pearl
Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Fire Flame Genius Inspirational One Liner Talent
A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Herself Husband Lover Teaching Wife
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
As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Generosity Poor Rule
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
There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Cure Medicine Temptation
Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Affect Case Heart Reason Wound
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Children Freedom Mom
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Event Person Result
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
Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Cruelty Hands Togetherness
Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Acquire Pieces Virtue Whole Yourself
The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Defeat Orphan Parents Victory

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