Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
HONORE DE BALZACLove may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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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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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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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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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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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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