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 BALZACOld men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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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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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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