Honore de Balzac on alcohol
Honore de Balzac141 quotes“Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.”
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Temperament is the thermometer of character.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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