The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
HONORE DE BALZACPassion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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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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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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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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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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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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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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