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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

Honore de Balzac

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Alcohol End Greatness Love Start
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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Change Conduct Himself Man Opinion Wasted Time
Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Happiness Man Possession Relationship Woman
Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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Dictionary Fools Gratitude Heart Man World
Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Love Poetry Sense
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Courtesy General Selfish
The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Defeat Orphan Parents Victory
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
God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Actor Drama God Heaven Man Poet Writing
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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Doubt Power Yourself
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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Art Artist Feeling Heart Herself Love Touch Word
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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Feeling Fools History Judgement Life Man Secret Sorrow
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.
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Dance Quite Right Woman
When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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Attack Fall People Religion Rich Royal
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
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Equality Forever Love Pure True

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

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