At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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 sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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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.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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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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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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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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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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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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