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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.

Honore de Balzac

Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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Change Delight Happiness Instrument Position Woman
He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Best Himself Love World
The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Defeat Orphan Parents Victory
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Event Person Result
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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Forever Greatness Ideal Live Praise Presence World
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Alcohol End Greatness Love Start
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Hard Power Reveal Strike True
Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Love Poetry Sense
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
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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Intelligence Love Ugly Woman
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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Complaint Kind Love Time Vaccination
To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Choice Happiness Herself Love Man Wife
Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Beautiful Capacity Forget Life Memories
A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Dangerous Naked Oneself Skills Woman
Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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Heart Light Love See Woman
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Children Freedom Mom

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