The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
HONORE DE BALZACLove is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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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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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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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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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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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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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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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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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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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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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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