If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
HONORE DE BALZACOld men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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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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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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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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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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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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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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