Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
HONORE DE BALZACIf we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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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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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of 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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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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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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