The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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 man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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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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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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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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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Liberty 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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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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