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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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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
Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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Anticipation Fear Greatness Lying Ourselves
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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Food Hate Small Soul Vice
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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Appetite Hungry Love Man Necessary Sex
Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Gratitude Happiness Love Pleasure
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Death Despair Happiness Man Spirit
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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Credit Crime Forgiveness Love Ourselves Virtue Woman
At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Beautiful Promise Talent Woman
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Familiar Marriage Monster Similar
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
Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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Catch Law Oneself Pass Small
No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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Dare Love Motive Natural Woman
A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Compare Creature Man Poor Woman
As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Generosity Poor Rule
Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Account Estimate Form Man Opinion Wife World
One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Life Love Ourselves Time
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Happiness Ignorance Moments
Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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Immense Love. Reveal
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
How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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Better Failure Quality Vice Virtue
Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Art Effort Greatness Nature
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Equality Forever Love Pure True
Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Feeling Life Ourselves Simplicity
We love because we love.
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Love One Liner
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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Crime Forget Fortune Reason Secret
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Hard Power Reveal Strike True

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