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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.

Honore de Balzac

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Lying Misery Misfortune Worst
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Death Despair Happiness Man Spirit
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
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Need Solitude Yourself
Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Art Effort Greatness Nature
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
Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Fast Growth Rich
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
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
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Believe Immortal Marriage Oneself Soul
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Event Person Result
The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Fools Himself Man Philosophy Wife
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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Doubt Power Yourself
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
What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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Double Feeling Friendship Love Myself
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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Face Man Open Sailor Sea Woman

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