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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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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Actor Drama God Heaven Man Poet Writing
I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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Carry Imagination Kiss Myself Possession Thinking
Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Affect Case Heart Reason Wound
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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Face Man Open Sailor Sea Woman
Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Feeling Life Ourselves Simplicity
The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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Admire Book Cover Dress Elegant Rich
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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Beginning Coffee Fall Ideas Ink Paper Smile
Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Fast Growth Rich
The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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Complete Feeling Goodness Help Inferior
Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Choice Hard Life Yourself
People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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Fortune Happiness Misfortune Ourselves People
Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Fire Flame Genius Inspirational One Liner Talent
As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Generosity Poor Rule
We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Confront Moral Resource Solitude
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Death Despair Happiness Man Spirit
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Conversion Earth Equality Fact Power Right
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
Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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Change Charm Creature Heart Herself Woman
Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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Man Sheep Strength Willing Woman
A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Herself Husband Lover Teaching Wife
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Original Resistance Time Woman
At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Beautiful Promise Talent Woman
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
Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Love Mutual Poet Privilege Sorrow
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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Awake Goodness Husband Morning Sleep
The more you judge, the less you love.
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Judge Love Yourself
Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Hope Light Stimulation

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