Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
HONORE DE BALZACIn the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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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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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.
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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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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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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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The more you judge, the less you love.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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We love because we love.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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