Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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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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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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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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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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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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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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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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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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