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• Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.

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  Grief, Heart, Giving

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• No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.

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  Forgiveness, Pedestal, Lovers

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• Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune.

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  Wine, Misfortunes

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• Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.

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  Love, Heart, Light

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• A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

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  Inspirational, Good Morning, Marriage

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• No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.

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  Sea, Lines, Latitude And Longitude

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• 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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  Love Is, Men, Delight

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• Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

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  Love, May, Immensity

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.109, The Floating Press

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• Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.

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  Light, Diets

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• Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.

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  Memories, Character, Writing

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• 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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  Love, Hope, Passion

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.135, The Floating Press

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• Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.

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  Men, Reign, Mischief

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• In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

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  Family, Children, Judging

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• The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

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  Love, Chivalry, Motto

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• A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye, a mere word, an inflection of the voice or a moment's hesitation suffice to expose the fact, betrayal or crime he is attempting to conceal.

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  Betrayal, Eye, Men

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• Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

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  Desire, Vices, Desire To Learn

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• 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, Maids, Bent

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• A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!

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  Clever, Men, Law

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• 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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  Fall, People, Rich

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• It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.

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  Believe, Men, Facts

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• Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man

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  Men, Unexpected, Caprice

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “The Elixir of Life”, p.9, The Floating Press

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• Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.

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  Answers, Pleasure, Greater

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• 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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  Hate, Like Love, Hatred

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• 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

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• The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

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  Fashion, Men, Fool

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