Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
HONORE DE BALZACCruelty and fear shake hands together.
HONORE DE BALZACForgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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 BALZACAs a rule, only the poor are generous.
HONORE DE BALZACNo man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
HONORE DE BALZACDo you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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 BALZACOur greatest fears lie in anticipation.
HONORE DE BALZACMen die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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 BALZACIt is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
HONORE DE BALZACA woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
HONORE DE BALZACMemories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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 BALZACThere is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
HONORE DE BALZACTrue love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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