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.
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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We love because we love.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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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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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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