Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
HONORE DE BALZACAt fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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Love, 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.
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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 first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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