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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

Honore de Balzac

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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Love People Suspect
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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Destroy Insult Jealous Natural Possession
If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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Face Impossible People Society
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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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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Man Mischeif Woman
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
A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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Judge Love Yourself
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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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
At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Beautiful Promise Talent Woman

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