Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
HONORE DE BALZACA lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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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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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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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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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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