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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.

Honore de Balzac

He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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Care Greatness Heart Man Mistake Tranquility
The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Defeat Orphan Parents Victory
The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Fools Himself Man Philosophy Wife
At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Beautiful Promise Talent Woman
It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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Instrument Love Man Music Musician Pieces Play Weird Woman
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Bond Greatness Relationship Sick Yourself
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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Command Different Fact Kind Love Obedience Oneself Passion Quite
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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Art Artist Feeling Heart Herself Love Touch Word
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Happiness Ignorance Moments
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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Death Expectation Man True
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Alcohol End Greatness Love Start
Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Sensitive Victim Woman
Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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Boredom Coffee People
Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Desire Knowledge Learning Vice
Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Affect Case Heart Reason Wound
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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Appetite Hungry Love Man Necessary Sex

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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