Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
HONORE DE BALZACMany people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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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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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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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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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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