How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
HONORE DE BALZACWoman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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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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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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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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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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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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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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