Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
HONORE DE BALZACThe press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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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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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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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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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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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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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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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 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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