Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
HONORE DE BALZACThe victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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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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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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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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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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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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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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