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

Honore de Balzac

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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Desire Knowledge Learning Vice
The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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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
Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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Catch Law Oneself Pass Small
He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Best Himself Love World
Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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Man Mischeif Woman
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Lying Misery Misfortune Worst
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Hard Power Reveal Strike True
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
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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Face Man Open Sailor Sea Woman
All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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Courage Depend Energy Happiness Illusion Myself Work
Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Forget Life
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
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

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