No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
HONORE DE BALZACNo man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
HONORE DE BALZACWoman 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.
HONORE DE BALZACThe boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
HONORE DE BALZACVirtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
HONORE DE BALZACTalent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
HONORE DE BALZACCruelty and fear shake hands together.
HONORE DE BALZACA great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
HONORE DE BALZACIt 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 BALZACGreat minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
HONORE DE BALZACThe smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
HONORE DE BALZACMen die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
HONORE DE BALZACSolitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
HONORE DE BALZACHow sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
HONORE DE BALZACLove, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
HONORE DE BALZACThe greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
HONORE DE BALZACThe secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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