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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

Honore de Balzac

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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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Man Mischeif Woman
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
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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Food Hate Love Right Wrong
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
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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Equality Forever Heart Love Poor True Violence Young
The more you judge, the less you love.
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Judge Love Yourself
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Happiness Hard Joy Moments Sorrow
The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Himself Husband Lover Man Silence
Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Happiness Man Possession Relationship Woman
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Dive Happiness. Grave Pearl
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
The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Judgement Love Oneself
The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Greatness Love Ourselves Self Love
Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Cruelty Hands Togetherness
The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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Close Greatness Mad Man Mark Original Talent
Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Love Poetry Sense

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