The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
HONORE DE BALZACThe 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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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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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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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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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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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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