Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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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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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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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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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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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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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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