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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.

Honore de Balzac

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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Feature Flower Intuition Persistence Small Thinking
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
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
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
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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Credit Crime Forgiveness Love Ourselves Virtue Woman
Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Forget Live Secret Strong
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Lying Misery Misfortune Worst
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
Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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Dictionary Fools Gratitude Heart Man World
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Equality Forever Love Pure True
No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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Dare Love Motive Natural Woman
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
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
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
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Happiness Ignorance Moments
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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Day Finding Happiness Yourself

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