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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.

Honore de Balzac

At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Beautiful Promise Talent 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
Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Sensitive Victim Woman
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
He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Best Himself Love World
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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Forever Greatness Ideal Live Praise Presence World
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
A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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Courage Easy Form Lesson Repeat Reward Teacher
How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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Better Failure Quality Vice Virtue
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
People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Love People Suspect
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Compound Human Patience Power Time
How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Explanation Jealous Return
Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Art Effort Greatness Nature
Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Beautiful Capacity Forget Life Memories
Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Afraid Heart Jealous Spell

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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