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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

Honore de Balzac

At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Beautiful Promise Talent Woman
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
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
The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Fools Himself Man Philosophy Wife
Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Afraid Heart Jealous Spell
The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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Complete Feeling Goodness Help Inferior
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
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Drain Existence Fulfillment Vocation
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
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
Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Feeling Life Ourselves Simplicity
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Alcohol End Greatness Love Start
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
A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Herself Husband Lover Teaching Wife
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
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Original Resistance Time Woman

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

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