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 BALZACAs a rule, only the poor are generous.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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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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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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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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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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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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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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We love because we love.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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