Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
HONORE DE BALZACBureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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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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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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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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We love because we love.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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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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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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