Temperament is the thermometer of character.
HONORE DE BALZACTalent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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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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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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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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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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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.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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