The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
HONORE DE BALZACFirst love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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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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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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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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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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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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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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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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