Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
HONORE DE BALZACOur greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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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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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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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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The more you judge, the less you love.
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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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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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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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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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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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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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