Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
HONORE DE BALZACGive to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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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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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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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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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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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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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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