Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
HONORE DE BALZACThe greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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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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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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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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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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