We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
HONORE DE BALZACLaw is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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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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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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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 who best knows the world will love it least.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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