Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
HONORE DE BALZACNo woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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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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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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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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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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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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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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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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