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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.

Honore de Balzac

In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Growth Love Time Woman
People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Love People Suspect
Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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Death Expectation Man True
The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Himself Husband Lover Man Silence
Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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Change Delight Happiness Instrument Position 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
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
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Lying Misery Misfortune Worst
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Compound Human Patience Power Time
We love because we love.
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Love One Liner
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
Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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Immense Love. Reveal
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
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
The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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Complete Feeling Goodness Help Inferior
He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Best Himself Love World

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