Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
HONORE DE BALZACMarriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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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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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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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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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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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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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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