It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
HONORE DE BALZACThe more one judges, the less one loves.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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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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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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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.
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