At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
HONORE DE BALZACPhysically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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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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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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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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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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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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