Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
HONORE DE BALZACThough 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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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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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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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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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