Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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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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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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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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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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