Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
HONORE DE BALZACA good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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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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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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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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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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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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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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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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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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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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