Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
HONORE DE BALZACSolitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
HONORE DE BALZACNoble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
HONORE DE BALZACHatred 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.
HONORE DE BALZACAs a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
HONORE DE BALZACA great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
HONORE DE BALZACWomen see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
HONORE DE BALZACGreat love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
HONORE DE BALZACWhen women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
HONORE DE BALZACThe boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
HONORE DE BALZACFirst love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
HONORE DE BALZACIt is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
HONORE DE BALZACThe man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
HONORE DE BALZACBureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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 BALZACPhysically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
HONORE DE BALZACLove is the poetry of the senses.
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