Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
HONORE DE BALZACThe heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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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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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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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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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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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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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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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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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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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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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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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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