Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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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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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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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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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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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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