Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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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 woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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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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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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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 fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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