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.
HONORE DE BALZACMan is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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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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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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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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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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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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Hatred 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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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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