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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.

Honore de Balzac

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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Heart Necessary Opportunity Win Woman
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
To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Choice Happiness Herself Love Man Wife
A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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Change Conduct Himself Man Opinion Wasted Time
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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Complaint Kind Love Time Vaccination
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Courtesy General Selfish
At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Beautiful Promise Talent Woman
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Equality Forever Love Pure True
The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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Admire Book Cover Dress Elegant Rich
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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Husband Lover Run Thinking Way
Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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Destiny Live Maid Old Requirement Woman
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Bond Greatness Relationship Sick Yourself
Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Desire Knowledge Learning Vice
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Original Resistance Time Woman
Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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Angel Compassionate Infinity Woman

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