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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.

Honore de Balzac

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
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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Divine Introduction Life Mom Poverty World Youth
Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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Beginning Poverty
When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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Attack Fall People Religion Rich Royal
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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Equality Forever Heart Love Poor True Violence Young
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
In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Growth Love Time Woman
Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Sensitive Victim Woman
Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Beautiful Capacity Forget Life Memories
Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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Live Man Marriage Occupation Professional Yourself
There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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Event History Lying Official Reality Reason Secret
What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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Double Feeling Friendship Love Myself
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
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
Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Gratitude Happiness Love Pleasure
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

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