People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
HONORE DE BALZACThough the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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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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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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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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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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