Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
HONORE DE BALZACThe first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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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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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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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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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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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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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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