Honore De Balzac Quotes, Love Quotes, Witty Quotes

I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.

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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.

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They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of them.

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A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

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Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance kills the happiest passion.

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The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn.

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Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.

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Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.

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We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.

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Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently.

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A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry is endless, she shrouds herself in veil after veil, she satisfies every demand of man's vanity, the novice responds but to one.

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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

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It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.

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A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is weak when composed of scattered individuals, to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind in their wretched egotism, to the fact that the day is coming when this too will be torn from them.

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My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one."

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Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.

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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

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They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.

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