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 BALZACI can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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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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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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