Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
HONORE DE BALZACThe good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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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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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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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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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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