Honore De Balzac Quotes, Men Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law. They all wear black, too, for are they not in mourning for every virtue and every illusion?

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Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.

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Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.

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Vivacity is the health of the spirit.

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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

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Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.

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In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.

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Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

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I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.

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Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink...

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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

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This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fault for an excuse, which makes an outcry at the wound which it condones, is one of the most distinctive features of the journalist. This camaraderie (the word is a stroke of genius) corrodes the noblest minds; it eats into their pride like rust, kills the germ of great deeds, and lends a sanction to moral cowardice.

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Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.

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The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness.

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Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

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To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

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Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God

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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.

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I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

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