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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

Honore de Balzac

Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Art Effort Greatness Nature
Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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Affection Hate Heart Human Rare Slope
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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Destroy Insult Jealous Natural Possession
In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Growth Love Time Woman
Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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Death Expectation Man True
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Event Person Result
A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Creation Genius Husband Marriage Woman
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Original Resistance Time 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
Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Sensitive Victim Woman
The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Judgement Love Oneself
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
It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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Dance Quite Right Woman
The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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Believe Force Husband Let Go Lying Media Public Yourself
Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Hope Light Stimulation
Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Desire Knowledge Learning Vice

Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

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