Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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 the poetry of the senses.
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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Hatred 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.
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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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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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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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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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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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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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