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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.

Honore de Balzac

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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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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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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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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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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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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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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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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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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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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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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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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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