Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
HONORE DE BALZACMemories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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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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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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Love, 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.
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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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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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