One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
HONORE DE BALZACHatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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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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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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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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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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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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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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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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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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