At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
HONORE DE BALZACOur greatest fears lie in anticipation.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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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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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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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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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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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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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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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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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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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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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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