Honore De Balzac Quotes, Summer Quotes, Spring Quotes

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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Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?

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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

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In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.

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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 get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.

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Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.

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Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime.

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Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.

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It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

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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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Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes.

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Nos beaux sentiments ne sont-ils pas les poe sies de la volonte ? Aren't our best feelings poetry of the will?

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Women, perhaps even require a little hypocrisy.

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While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.

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

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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

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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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