We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
HONORE DE BALZACOur heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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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.
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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.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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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 naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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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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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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We love because we love.
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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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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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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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