A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
HONORE DE BALZACA man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
HONORE DE BALZACThe more you judge, the less you love.
HONORE DE BALZACBureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
HONORE DE BALZACHe has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
HONORE DE BALZACHow sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
HONORE DE BALZACHow can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
HONORE DE BALZACThe greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
HONORE DE BALZACThe good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
HONORE DE BALZACA naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
HONORE DE BALZACWhat makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
HONORE DE BALZACGreat minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
HONORE DE BALZACCan you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
HONORE DE BALZACTrue lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
HONORE DE BALZACEverybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
HONORE DE BALZACWe love because we love.
HONORE DE BALZACIt 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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