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.
HONORE DE BALZACLife is simply what out feelings do to us.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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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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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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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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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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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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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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