The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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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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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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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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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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