Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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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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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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