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.
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.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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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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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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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.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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