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

Honore de Balzac

It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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Dance Quite Right Woman
People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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Fortune Happiness Misfortune Ourselves People
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
The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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Believe Force Husband Let Go Lying Media Public Yourself
Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Born Journey Painful Poetry Thinking
Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Fast Growth Rich
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Children Freedom Mom
A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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Courage Easy Form Lesson Repeat Reward Teacher
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
Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Love Poetry Sense
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Art Humanity Passion Religion Romance Universal Wasted
Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Feeling Life Ourselves Simplicity
All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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Courage Depend Energy Happiness Illusion Myself Work
Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Beautiful Capacity Forget Life Memories
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Happiness Ignorance Moments
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

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