He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
HONORE DE BALZACEverybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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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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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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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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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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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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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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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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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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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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