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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

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
In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Growth Love Time Woman
True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Difficult Love Lover Money True
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Hard Power Reveal Strike True
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Happiness Ignorance Moments
People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Love People Suspect
Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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Change Delight Happiness Instrument Position Woman
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
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
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
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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Complaint Kind Love Time Vaccination
Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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Destiny Live Maid Old Requirement Woman
Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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Greatness Growth Mom Passion Satisfaction Vice
Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Art Effort Greatness Nature
Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Forget Life
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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