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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.

Honore de Balzac

Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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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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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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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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Close Greatness Mad Man Mark Original Talent
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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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Event Person Result
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 press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Defeat Orphan Parents Victory
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
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Conversion Earth Equality Fact Power Right
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
Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Greatness Mindset Misfortune See Virtue
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

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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