People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
HONORE DE BALZACLaw is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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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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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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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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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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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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