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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

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Event Person Result
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Familiar Marriage Monster Similar
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
Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Hope Light Stimulation
Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Born Journey Painful Poetry Thinking
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
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Courtesy General Selfish
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Greatness Power Talent Willing
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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Intelligence Love Ugly Woman
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
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
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
I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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Carry Imagination Kiss Myself Possession Thinking
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
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
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

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

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