Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
HONORE DE BALZACNothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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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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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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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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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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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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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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