Honore De Balzac Quotes, Soul Quotes, Literature Quotes

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

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No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game from afar is comparable in speed to the celerity of a salesman when he gets wind a deal, to his skill in tripping up or forestalling a rival, and to the art with which he sniffs out and discovers a possible sale.

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

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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.

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Love is the poetry of the senses.

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I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.

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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.

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A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.

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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

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Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions.

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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man

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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

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Temperament is the thermometer of character.

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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

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Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.

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What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible.

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Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.

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A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.

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From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.

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