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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!

Honore de Balzac

The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Defeat Orphan Parents Victory
Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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Art Artist Feeling Heart Herself Love Touch Word
Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Forget Live Secret Strong
The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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Admire Book Cover Dress Elegant Rich
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
Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Desire Enjoyment Hope Memory
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
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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Live Man Marriage Occupation Professional Yourself
Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Sensitive Victim Woman
Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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Feature Himself Man Woman
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
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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Credit Crime Forgiveness Love Ourselves Virtue Woman
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
In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Children Family Intimate Life Moments Parents Willing
Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Afraid Heart Jealous Spell
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

How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!

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