Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
HONORE DE BALZACWoman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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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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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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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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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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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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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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