Love is the poetry of the senses.
HONORE DE BALZACThere are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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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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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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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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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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