The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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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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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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