Honore De Balzac Quotes, Horse Quotes, Fall Quotes

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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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.

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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.

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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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Thinking is seeing.... Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up from the effect to the cause; or, in a wider sense, all poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

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

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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian, a treasure for a man of parts, and an abyss for a weakling.

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Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.

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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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Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

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For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth.

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Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.

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Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.

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The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness.

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For avarice begins where poverty ends.

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The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them.

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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.

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The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred

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A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.

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