The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
HONORE DE BALZACBureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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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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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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Though 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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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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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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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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