As a rule, only the poor are generous.
HONORE DE BALZACAs a rule, only the poor are generous.
HONORE DE BALZACOne should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
HONORE DE BALZACOld men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
HONORE DE BALZACBureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
HONORE DE BALZACThe more you judge, the less you love.
HONORE DE BALZACThe heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
HONORE DE BALZACLife cannot go on without much forgetting.
HONORE DE BALZACLove is the poetry of the senses.
HONORE DE BALZACIt is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
HONORE DE BALZACGod is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
HONORE DE BALZACCourtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
HONORE DE BALZACForgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
HONORE DE BALZACNothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
HONORE DE BALZACOld 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.
HONORE DE BALZACA good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
HONORE DE BALZACTrue lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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