Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.
Honore de BalzacA husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.
Honore de BalzacWomen are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.
Honore de Balzac