What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
HONORE DE BALZACWant him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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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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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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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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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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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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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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