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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.


Honoré de Balzac

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HONORE DE BALZAC Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.
HONORE DE BALZAC A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's inf...
HONORE DE BALZAC It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violi...
HONORE DE BALZAC Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exis...
HONORE DE BALZAC Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.
HONORE DE BALZAC Man is young as long as he can repeat his emotions; woman, as long as she can inspire them
HONORE DE BALZAC Photography imitates everything and expresses nothing.
HONORé DAUMIER Love is the poetry of the senses.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC Women made us lose paradise, but how frequently we find it again in their arms
DE FINOD The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own.
DE DELLOY An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
DE CHATEAUBRIAND Peace is a natural effect of trade.
DE MONTESQUIEU If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
DE MONTESQUIEU Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
DE MONTESQUIEU In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the fo...
DE MONTESQUIEU There is a French saying: ''Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.''
DE FINOD We would prefer to see a more expedient transfer of properties and the backlog ? being cleared.
DE RAUVILLE