The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
HONORE DE BALZACA naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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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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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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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.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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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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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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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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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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