Honore de Balzac on heart
Honore de Balzac141 quotes“The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.”
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac 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 BalzacHonore de Balzac People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac As a rule, only the poor are generous.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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Caught inside my mind trapped between its horrid lines losing precious time.
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