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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?

Honore de Balzac

He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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Care Greatness Heart Man Mistake Tranquility
Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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Human Leadership Liberty Lost System Win
The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Judgement Love Oneself
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Courtesy General Selfish
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
Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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Greatness Growth Mom Passion Satisfaction Vice
Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Gratitude Happiness Love Pleasure
Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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Love Mutual Poet Privilege Sorrow
The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Greatness Love Ourselves Self Love
How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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Better Failure Quality Vice Virtue
We love because we love.
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Love One Liner
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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Food Hate Small Soul Vice
Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Affect Case Heart Reason Wound
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
In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Growth Love Time Woman
The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Heart Necessary Opportunity Win Woman

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