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

Honore de Balzac

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
Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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Food Hate Small Soul Vice
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Event Person Result
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Hard Power Reveal Strike True
Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Beautiful Capacity Forget Life Memories
A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Dangerous Naked Oneself Skills Woman
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Compound Human Patience Power Time
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
Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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Catch Law Oneself Pass Small
Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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Man Physical Time 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
Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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Food Hate Love Right Wrong
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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Care Greatness Heart Man Mistake Tranquility
Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Future Investment Man Old Own Past Sorrow
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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Chivalry Love Oneself Service Wisdom
Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Art Effort Greatness Nature

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