Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
HONORE DE BALZACOur greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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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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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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