Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
HONORE DE BALZACGreat love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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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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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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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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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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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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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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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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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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