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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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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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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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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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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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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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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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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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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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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