Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
HONORE DE BALZACTemperament is the thermometer of character.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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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 more you judge, the less you love.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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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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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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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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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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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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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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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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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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