The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
HONORE DE BALZACThe duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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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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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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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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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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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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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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