Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
HONORE DE BALZACMen die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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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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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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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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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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