Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
HONORE DE BALZACA woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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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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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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We love because we love.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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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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