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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

Honore de Balzac

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Need Solitude Yourself
Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Feeling Life Ourselves Simplicity
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Hard Power Reveal Strike True
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Alcohol End Greatness Love Start
Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Desire Knowledge Learning Vice
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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Chivalry Love Oneself Service Wisdom
In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Growth Love Time Woman
Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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Catch Law Oneself Pass Small
A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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Change Conduct Himself Man Opinion Wasted Time
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
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
A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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Courage Easy Form Lesson Repeat Reward Teacher
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
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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Command Different Fact Kind Love Obedience Oneself Passion Quite
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
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

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

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