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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.

Honore de Balzac

The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Greatness Love Ourselves Self Love
All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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Courage Depend Energy Happiness Illusion Myself Work
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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Husband Lover Run Thinking Way
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
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
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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Command Different Fact Kind Love Obedience Oneself Passion Quite
God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Actor Drama God Heaven Man Poet Writing
Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Fast Growth Rich
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
Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Afraid Heart Jealous Spell
A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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Courage Easy Form Lesson Repeat Reward Teacher
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
A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Compare Creature Man Poor Woman
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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Finding Forgiveness Heart Mom Yourself
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Bond Greatness Relationship Sick Yourself
Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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Heart Light Love See Woman
To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Choice Happiness Herself Love Man Wife
One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Life Love Ourselves Time
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Original Resistance Time Woman
Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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Beginning Coffee Fall Ideas Ink Paper Smile
Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Cruelty Hands Togetherness
Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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Change Charm Creature Heart Herself Woman
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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Crime Forget Fortune Reason Secret
Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Sensitive Victim Woman
Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Happiness Man Possession Relationship Woman
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
How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Explanation Jealous Return

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