Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
HONORE DE BALZACA woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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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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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.
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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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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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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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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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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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