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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

Honore de Balzac

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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Explanation Jealous Return
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Courtesy General Selfish
People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Love People Suspect
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
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Event Person Result
As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Generosity Poor Rule
In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Growth Love Time Woman
Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Forget Live Secret Strong
There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Cure Medicine Temptation
Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Gratitude Happiness Love Pleasure
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Bond Greatness Relationship Sick Yourself
Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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Man Sheep Strength Willing Woman
Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Feeling Life Ourselves Simplicity
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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Intelligence Love Ugly 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 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

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