The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
HONORE DE BALZACCoffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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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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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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We love because we love.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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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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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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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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