A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
HONORE DE BALZACWoman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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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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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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