Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
HONORE DE BALZACThe motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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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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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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