How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
HONORE DE BALZACA lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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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.
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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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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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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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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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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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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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