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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

Honore de Balzac

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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Instrument Love Man Music Musician Pieces Play Weird Woman
Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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Beginning Poverty
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Happiness Ignorance Moments
The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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Admire Book Cover Dress Elegant Rich
Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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Affection Hate Heart Human Rare Slope
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
Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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Art Artist Feeling Heart Herself Love Touch Word
If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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Feeling Fools History Judgement Life Man Secret Sorrow
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
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
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Dive Happiness. Grave Pearl
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
Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Beautiful Capacity Forget Life Memories
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 easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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Difficult Easy Husband Love Simplicity Talk Time
Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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Human Leadership Liberty Lost System Win

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

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