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.
HONORE DE BALZACThe man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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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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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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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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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.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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We love because we love.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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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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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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