The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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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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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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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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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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The more you judge, the less you love.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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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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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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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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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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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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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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