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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.

Honore de Balzac

To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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Forever Greatness Ideal Live Praise Presence World
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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Credit Crime Forgiveness Love Ourselves Virtue Woman
Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Gratitude Happiness Love Pleasure
Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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Man Mischeif Woman
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
Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Fast Growth Rich
Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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Appetite Hungry Love Man Necessary Sex
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
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Need Solitude Yourself
A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Death Greatness Poet Writing
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
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Control Giant Operation
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
Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Desire Enjoyment Hope Memory
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
In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Growth Love Time Woman

Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.

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