The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
HONORE DE BALZACIt is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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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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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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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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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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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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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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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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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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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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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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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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