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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.

Honore de Balzac

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
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Death Despair Happiness Man Spirit
A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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Doubt Himself Husband Jealous
Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Afraid Heart Jealous Spell
As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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Excellence Family Generosity Money Poor Reasons Relative Rich Rule
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
Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Desire Enjoyment Hope Memory
A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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Fond Happiness Memories Mom Pass
I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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Carry Imagination Kiss Myself Possession Thinking
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
If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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Feeling Fools History Judgement Life Man Secret Sorrow
Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Gratitude Happiness Love Pleasure
If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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Face Impossible People Society
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Familiar Marriage Monster Similar
A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Herself Husband Lover Teaching Wife
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

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