It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
HONORE DE BALZACThe victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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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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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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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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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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