Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
HONORE DE BALZACMany people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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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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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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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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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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