One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
HONORE DE BALZACSome day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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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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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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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.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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