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.
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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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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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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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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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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