The more one judges, the less one loves.
HONORE DE BALZACIn intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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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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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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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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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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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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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 press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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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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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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