Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
HONORE DE BALZACLife is simply what out feelings do to us.
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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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 more one judges, the less one loves.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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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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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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