Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
Honore de Balzac
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea.
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No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power
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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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All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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And thus Bureaucracy, the giant power wielded by pygmies, came into the world
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Love is a game in which one always cheats.
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Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the glory of a noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face
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A courage which looks easy and yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together
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Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact
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