We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
HONORE DE BALZACA naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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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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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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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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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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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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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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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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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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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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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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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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