A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
HONORE DE BALZACThere are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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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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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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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.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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