Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
HONORE DE BALZACCourtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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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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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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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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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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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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