Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
HONORE DE BALZACOur greatest fears lie in anticipation.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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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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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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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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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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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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