The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
HONORE DE BALZACWhen 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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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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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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The more you judge, the less you love.
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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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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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