The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
HONORE DE BALZACWhat makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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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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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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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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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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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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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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