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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.

Honore de Balzac

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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Difficult Easy Husband Love Simplicity Talk Time
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
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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Credit Crime Forgiveness Love Ourselves Virtue Woman
Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Happiness Man Possession Relationship Woman
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
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Happiness Ignorance Moments
The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Greatness Love Ourselves Self Love
Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Afraid Heart Jealous Spell
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Action Difficult Easy Notice
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
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
Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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Beginning Poverty
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Greatness Power Talent Willing
Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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Food Hate Love Right Wrong
God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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