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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.

Honore de Balzac

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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Immense Love. Reveal
Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Sensitive Victim Woman
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
Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Fire Flame Genius Inspirational One Liner Talent
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Dive Happiness. Grave Pearl
The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Greatness Love Ourselves Self Love
If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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Feeling Fools History Judgement Life Man Secret Sorrow
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
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
In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Growth Love Time Woman
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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Awake Goodness Husband Morning Sleep
As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Generosity Poor Rule
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Conversion Earth Equality Fact Power Right
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
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Happiness Ignorance Moments

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