The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
HONORE DE BALZACNobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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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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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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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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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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