We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
HONORE DE BALZACFirst love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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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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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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