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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

Honore de Balzac

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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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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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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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