He who best knows the world will love it least.
HONORE DE BALZACHe who best knows the world will love it least.
HONORE DE BALZACWoman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
HONORE DE BALZACLove may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
HONORE DE BALZACGive to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
HONORE DE BALZACVirtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
HONORE DE BALZACLove, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
HONORE DE BALZACVice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
HONORE DE BALZACThe greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
HONORE DE BALZACHow natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
HONORE DE BALZACThe good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
HONORE DE BALZACTrue 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.
HONORE DE BALZACAn unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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.
HONORE DE BALZACWhen women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
HONORE DE BALZACWomen see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
HONORE DE BALZACCan you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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