When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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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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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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