Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
HONORE DE BALZACGod is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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We love because we love.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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