Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
HONORE DE BALZACBureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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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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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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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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