Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
HONORE DE BALZACThe smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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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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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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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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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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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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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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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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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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