All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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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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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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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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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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