Honore De Balzac Quotes, Gratitude Quotes, Heart Quotes

Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

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Clouds signify the veil of the Most High.

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Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.

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Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.

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The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

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Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.

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I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.

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Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will.

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

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If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.

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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.

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Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn.

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Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.

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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.

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Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints.

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Le coeur d'une me' re est un ab|"me au fond duquel se trouve toujours un pardon. A mother'sheart isanabyss atthebottomof whichthere is always forgiveness.

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It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.

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A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart.

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It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

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