True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
HONORE DE BALZACTrue lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
HONORE DE BALZACNobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
HONORE DE BALZACOur greatest fears lie in anticipation.
HONORE DE BALZACThe more one judges, the less one loves.
HONORE DE BALZACGreat minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
HONORE DE BALZACHow sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
HONORE DE BALZACPoverty 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 BALZACGreat love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
HONORE DE BALZACAn unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
HONORE DE BALZACA man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
HONORE DE BALZACA lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
HONORE DE BALZACExcess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
HONORE DE BALZACThe greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
HONORE DE BALZACTo be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
HONORE DE BALZACBureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
HONORE DE BALZACDeath 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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