In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
HONORE DE BALZACLiberty 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.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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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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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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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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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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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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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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