“Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.”
More from Balzac on Love
“Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.”
“A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.”
“If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.”
“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.”
“Of necessity she went further in aversion than she had gone in love, for her hatred was not in proportion to her love but to her disappointed hopes.”
“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
“Love is the poetry of the senses!”
“The more a man judges, the less he loves”
“First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.”
“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”
Others on Love
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Leo Buscaglia
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Khalil Gibran
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Lord Byron
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Nicholas Sparks
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Mother Teresa
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Shakespeare
14 quotes“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.”
Rumi
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John Donne
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Gabriel García Márquez
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Rumi
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