People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
HONORE DE BALZACThe secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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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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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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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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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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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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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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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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