Honore De Balzac Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Men Quotes

To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.

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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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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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In all lands, sailors form a race apart. They profess a congenital contempt for landlubbers. As for the tradesman, he understands nothing of sailors nor cares a fig about them. He is content to rob them if he can.

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A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.

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Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.

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For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.

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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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A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

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The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.

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Your women of fashion ceases to be a woman. She is neither mother, nor wife, nor lover. She is, medically speaking, sex on the brain.

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In France everything is a matter for jest. People make quips about the scaffold, about Napoleon's defeat on the banks of The Beresina, and about the barricades of our revolutions. So, at the assizes of the Last Judgment, there will always be a Frenchmen to crack a joke.

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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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Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

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Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights.

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Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.

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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

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To have fame follow us is well, but it is not a desirable avant-courier.

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Modesty is the conscience of the body.

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Six weeks with a fever is an eternity.

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