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 BALZACLike 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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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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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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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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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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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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