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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.

Honore de Balzac

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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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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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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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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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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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