Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
HONORE DE BALZACSome day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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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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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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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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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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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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