The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
HONORE DE BALZACThe greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
HONORE DE BALZACOld men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
HONORE DE BALZACMemories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
HONORE DE BALZACCourtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
HONORE DE BALZACHow can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
HONORE DE BALZACThough the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
HONORE DE BALZACWomen see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
HONORE DE BALZACPeople who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
HONORE DE BALZACA jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
HONORE DE BALZACHow sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
HONORE DE BALZACPower is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
HONORE DE BALZACThe more you judge, the less you love.
HONORE DE BALZACWhat makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
HONORE DE BALZACA mother who is really a mother is never free.
HONORE DE BALZACThe smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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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