If you are to judge a man, you mus... - Honoré de balzac - Quotes.Pub

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.

Honoré de balzac Quotes

Love is the poetry of the senses.

Valentines day Quotes

Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

Good morning Quotes

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

Doubt Quotes

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.

Habit Quotes

There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.

Real Quotes

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Helping others Quotes

We are scarcely apt to berate the source of enjoyment.

Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.

Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.

He’s got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he’s reading the blasted things.

Reading Quotes

One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a continuity of desire where Nature thought only of perpetuating the species; and, in fine, to have invented love.

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.

By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.

You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth.

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.

Life is simply what out feelings do to us.

Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.

The weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic weather or hoist himself aloft to inscribe his name on a virgin monument.

When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more?

Now literary success can only be won in solitude by persevering labor.

True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe’s conceit.

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.

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