Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
HONORE DE BALZACIf you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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We love because we love.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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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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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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