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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

Honore de Balzac

Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Happiness Ignorance Moments
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Art Humanity Passion Religion Romance Universal Wasted
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
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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Doubt Power Yourself
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
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
Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Afraid Heart Jealous Spell
Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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Dictionary Fools Gratitude Heart Man World
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
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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Discover Friendship Himself Man Way Wife
Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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Change Charm Creature Heart Herself Woman
How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Explanation Jealous Return
A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Dangerous Naked Oneself Skills Woman
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
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
Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Affect Case Heart Reason Wound

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

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