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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Honore de Balzac

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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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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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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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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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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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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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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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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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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.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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