A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
HONORE DE BALZACLaw is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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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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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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We love because we love.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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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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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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