The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
HONORE DE BALZACOur heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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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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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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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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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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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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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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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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