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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.

Honore de Balzac

Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Desire Knowledge Learning Vice
A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Herself Husband Lover Teaching Wife
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Lying Misery Misfortune Worst
Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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Love Mutual Poet Privilege Sorrow
We love because we love.
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Love One Liner
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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Awake Goodness Husband Morning Sleep
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
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
The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Greatness Love Ourselves Self Love
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
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
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
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Compound Human Patience Power Time
A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Death Greatness Poet Writing
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 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

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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