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 BALZACCruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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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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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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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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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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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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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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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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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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