If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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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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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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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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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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