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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Honore de Balzac

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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Intelligence Love Ugly Woman
If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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Face Impossible People Society
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
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
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Familiar Marriage Monster Similar
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Happiness Ignorance Moments
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
Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Fast Growth Rich
The more you judge, the less you love.
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Judge Love Yourself
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
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 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
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
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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Destroy Insult Jealous Natural Possession
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Conversion Earth Equality Fact Power Right
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Original Resistance Time Woman

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