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.
HONORE DE BALZACThe man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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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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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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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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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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