A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
HONORE DE BALZACIt 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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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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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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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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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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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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