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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

Honore de Balzac

Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Beautiful Capacity Forget Life Memories
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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Beginning Coffee Fall Ideas Ink Paper Smile
Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Born Journey Painful Poetry Thinking
In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Growth Love Time Woman
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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Love Mutual Poet Privilege Sorrow
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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Dictionary Fools Gratitude Heart Man World
If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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Face Impossible People Society
Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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Heart Light Love See Woman
Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Acquire Pieces Virtue Whole Yourself
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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Instrument Love Man Music Musician Pieces Play Weird Woman
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.
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Human Leadership Liberty Lost System Win
I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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Carry Imagination Kiss Myself Possession Thinking
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Happiness Hard Joy Moments Sorrow
Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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Angel Compassionate Infinity Woman
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Believe Immortal Marriage Oneself Soul
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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Doubt Power Yourself

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

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