True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
HONORE DE BALZACBureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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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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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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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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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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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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