Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
HONORE DE BALZACWe cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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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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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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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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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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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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We love because we love.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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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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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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