It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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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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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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