The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
HONORE DE BALZACHope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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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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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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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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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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