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 BALZACAll human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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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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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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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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