Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
HONORE DE BALZACWe love because we love.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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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.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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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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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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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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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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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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