Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
HONORE DE BALZACEquality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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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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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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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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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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