The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
HONORE DE BALZACThe man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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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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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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We love because we love.
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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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