Honore de Balzac on food
Honore de Balzac141 quotes“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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Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac 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 BalzacHonore de Balzac The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac 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.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac 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.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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