Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
HONORE DE BALZACLove may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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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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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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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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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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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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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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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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