When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
HONORE DE BALZACPeople who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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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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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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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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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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