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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Honore de Balzac

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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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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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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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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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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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Judgement Love Oneself
To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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We love because we love.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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Fortune Happiness Misfortune Ourselves People
Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Gratitude Happiness Love Pleasure
Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Account Estimate Form Man Opinion Wife World
If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Hard Power Reveal Strike True
I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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Carry Imagination Kiss Myself Possession Thinking
Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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