Honore de Balzac on heart
Honore de Balzac141 quotes“The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.”
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac 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.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac As a rule, only the poor are generous.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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You were fully clothed in lies, I was naked in truth. Still, when morning came It was I who survived the cold.
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Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft I was born and reborn continuously, different people draw different me.
Anand ThakurAnand Thakur Do not let arrogance go to your head and despair to your heart; do not let compliments go to your head and criticisms to your heart; do not let success go to your head and failure to your heart.
Roy T. BennettRoy T. Bennett There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
Charles DickensCharles Dickens Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles DickensCharles Dickens You are a piece of art with a beating heart.
Saloni VermaSaloni Verma No matter how many tears are running down her face, They’ll never stand a chance to the fire burning in her heart.
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