Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
HONORE DE BALZACLove is the poetry of the senses.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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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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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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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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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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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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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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