He who best knows the world will love it least.
HONORE DE BALZACGod is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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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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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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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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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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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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We love because we love.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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