If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
HONORE DE BALZACIf we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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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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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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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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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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We love because we love.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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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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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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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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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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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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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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