Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
HONORE DE BALZACBureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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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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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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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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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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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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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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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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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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