A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
HONORE DE BALZACWomen, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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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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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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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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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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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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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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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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