Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
HONORE DE BALZACCruelty and fear shake hands together.
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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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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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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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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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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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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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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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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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