The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
HONORE DE BALZACPeople who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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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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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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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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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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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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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.
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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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