Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
HONORE DE BALZACTrue lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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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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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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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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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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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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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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