If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
HONORE DE BALZACFirst love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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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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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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The 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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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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