Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
HONORE DE BALZACIt 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.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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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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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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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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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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