Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
HONORE DE BALZACThe greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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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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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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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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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.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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We love because we love.
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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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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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