Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
HONORE DE BALZACWomen see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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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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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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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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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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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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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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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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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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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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