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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

Honore de Balzac

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
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
Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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Boredom Coffee People
Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Account Estimate Form Man Opinion Wife World
Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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Appetite Hungry Love Man Necessary Sex
People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Love People Suspect
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Believe Immortal Marriage Oneself Soul
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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Day Finding Happiness Yourself
Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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Affection Hate Heart Human Rare Slope
Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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Love Mutual Poet Privilege Sorrow
The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Heart Necessary Opportunity Win Woman
Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Sensitive Victim Woman
True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Difficult Love Lover Money True
Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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Beginning Coffee Fall Ideas Ink Paper Smile
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Event Person Result
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

What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

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