The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
HONORE DE BALZACThe victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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We love because we love.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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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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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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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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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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