When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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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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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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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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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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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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