As 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 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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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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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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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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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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