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 BALZACAs 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 BALZACNobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
HONORE DE BALZACOur greatest fears lie in anticipation.
HONORE DE BALZACExcess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
HONORE DE BALZACHe has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
HONORE DE BALZACAll human power is a compound of time and patience.
HONORE DE BALZACThe victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
HONORE DE BALZACIn the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
HONORE DE BALZACCruelty and fear shake hands together.
HONORE DE BALZACLove, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
HONORE DE BALZACThe heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
HONORE DE BALZACThe good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
HONORE DE BALZACHow sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
HONORE DE BALZACPhysically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
HONORE DE BALZACPeople exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
HONORE DE BALZACA good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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