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 BALZACThe 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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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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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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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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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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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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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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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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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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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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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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