Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
HONORE DE BALZACWe love because we love.
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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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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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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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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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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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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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