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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

Honore de Balzac

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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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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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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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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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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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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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