Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
HONORE DE BALZACTrue lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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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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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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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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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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