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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

Honore de Balzac

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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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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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