Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
HONORE DE BALZACPoetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
HONORE DE BALZACWe cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
HONORE DE BALZACTrue love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
HONORE DE BALZACIn the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
HONORE DE BALZACA courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
HONORE DE BALZACOld men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
HONORE DE BALZACA good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
HONORE DE BALZACNobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
HONORE DE BALZACAll human power is a compound of time and patience.
HONORE DE BALZACGratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
HONORE DE BALZACThe 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.
HONORE DE BALZACWomen, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
HONORE DE BALZACWomen see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
HONORE DE BALZACThe man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
HONORE DE BALZACThe greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
HONORE DE BALZACThe 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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