A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
HONORE DE BALZACA lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
HONORE DE BALZACThere is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
HONORE DE BALZACLaw is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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.
HONORE DE BALZACArt’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
HONORE DE BALZACNobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
HONORE DE BALZACDo you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
HONORE DE BALZACThe boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
HONORE DE BALZACThe heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
HONORE DE BALZACHope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
HONORE DE BALZACA woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
HONORE DE BALZACPoverty 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.
HONORE DE BALZACOld men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
HONORE DE BALZACLove is the poetry of the senses.
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 BALZACLiberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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