Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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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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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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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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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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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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