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.
HONORE DE BALZACTrue lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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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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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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