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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

Honore de Balzac

True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Explanation Jealous Return
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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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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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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We love because we love.
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

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