The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
HONORE DE BALZACWomen are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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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.
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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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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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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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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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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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.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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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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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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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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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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