Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
HONORE DE BALZACThe victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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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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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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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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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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