Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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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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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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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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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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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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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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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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