Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
HONORE DE BALZACAt fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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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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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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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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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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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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We love because we love.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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