The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
HONORE DE BALZACWe cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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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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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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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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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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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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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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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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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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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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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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