Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
HONORE DE BALZACA 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.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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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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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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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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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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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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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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