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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.

Honore de Balzac

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
He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Best Himself Love World
Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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Feature Himself Man Woman
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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Intelligence Love Ugly Woman
Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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Food Hate Love Right Wrong
A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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Doubt Himself Husband Jealous
The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Defeat Orphan Parents Victory
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
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
If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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Feeling Fools History Judgement Life Man Secret Sorrow
A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Dangerous Naked Oneself Skills Woman
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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Husband Lover Run Thinking Way
Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Forget Life
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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Excellence Family Generosity Money Poor Reasons Relative Rich Rule
Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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Heart Light Love See Woman
Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Desire Knowledge Learning Vice

Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.

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