Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
HONORE DE BALZACLove may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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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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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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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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