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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Honore de Balzac

It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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Dance Quite Right Woman
If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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Face Impossible People Society
A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Death Greatness Poet Writing
Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Choice Hard Life Yourself
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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Command Different Fact Kind Love Obedience Oneself Passion Quite
Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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Greatness Growth Mom Passion Satisfaction Vice
I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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Carry Imagination Kiss Myself Possession Thinking
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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Forever Greatness Ideal Live Praise Presence World
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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Believe Force Husband Let Go Lying Media Public Yourself
Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Art Effort Greatness Nature
Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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Change Delight Happiness Instrument Position Woman
Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Desire Knowledge Learning Vice
Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Desire Enjoyment Hope Memory
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Lying Misery Misfortune Worst
Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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Heart Money Treasure Yourself
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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Awake Goodness Husband Morning Sleep

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