Honore De Balzac Quotes, Jesus Quotes, Police Quotes

The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.

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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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What patient can trust the knowledge of a physician without reputation or furniture, in a period when publicity is all-powerful and when the government gilds the lamp posts on the Place de la Concorde in order to dazzle the poor?

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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.

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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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Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?

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A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.

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We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

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If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

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The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.

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One exits with one's husband -- one lives with one's lover.

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But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

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Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability.

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The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.

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A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders.

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He who best knows the world will love it least.

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Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtue.

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There is nothing original; all is reflected light.

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