Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
HONORE DE BALZACThe 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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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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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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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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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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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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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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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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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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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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