Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
HONORE DE BALZACCruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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