Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
HONORE DE BALZACHe who best knows the world will love it least.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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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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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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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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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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A man is a poor creature compared to 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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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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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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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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