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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

Honore de Balzac

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Equality Forever Love Pure True
Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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Man Physical Time Woman
A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Herself Husband Lover Teaching Wife
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Art Humanity Passion Religion Romance Universal Wasted
What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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Double Feeling Friendship Love Myself
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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Command Different Fact Kind Love Obedience Oneself Passion Quite
Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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Change Delight Happiness Instrument Position Woman
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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Day Finding Happiness Yourself
Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Sensitive Victim Woman
Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Greatness Mindset Misfortune See Virtue
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Hard Power Reveal Strike True
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 good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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Complete Feeling Goodness Help Inferior
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
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 duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Original Resistance Time Woman

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

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