True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
HONORE DE BALZACMarriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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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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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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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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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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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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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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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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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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