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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.

Honore de Balzac

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
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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Forever Greatness Ideal Live Praise Presence World
Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Desire Enjoyment Hope Memory
A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Compare Creature Man Poor Woman
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
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
No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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Discover Friendship Himself Man Way Wife
The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Heart Necessary Opportunity Win 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
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
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
Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Acquire Pieces Virtue Whole Yourself
The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Judgement Love Oneself
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Equality Forever Love Pure True
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
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Action Difficult Easy Notice

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