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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.

A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.

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Husband, Wife, Lovers

He who best knows the world will love it least.

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World, Knows

Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!

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Men, Trying, Want

Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

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Lying, Greatest Fear, Anticipation

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

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Silence, Feelings, Wells
Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.300, The Floating Press

Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.

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Marriage, Men, Feelings

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

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Marriage, Husband, Genius

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

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Leadership, Sports, Power

There are words which cut like steel.

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Cutting, Steel

Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.

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Love, Gratitude, Love Is

Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

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Half, Virtue

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

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Men, Despair, Literature

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

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Spiritual, Flower, Intuition

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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Love, Romantic, Thinking Of You

Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

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Jealousy, Fear, Heart

There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.

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Temptation, Cures
Honore de Balzac (2006). “Le Pere Goriot: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.217, ReadHowYouWant.com

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

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Mother, Brother, Kings

A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

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Men, Literature, Poor
"A Daughter of Eve". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1839.

Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance kills the happiest passion.

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Drama, Passion, Gestures

True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!

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Love, Money, Difficult

How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?

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Yield, Envy, Vices

One hour of love has a whole life in it.

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Hours, Whole Life, One Hour
Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.217, The Floating Press

Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage.

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Mother, Love Is, Self

The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

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Men, Originality, Talent

People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

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People, Unhappiness, Unfortunate
"Modeste Mignon". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1844.

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