Honore De Balzac Quotes, Real Quotes, Adversity Quotes

The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth.

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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.

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Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory.

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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

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A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be to mention his mistress, if she is beautiful, to his wife.

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Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps.

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Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

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For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.

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I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing.

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Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird.

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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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Six weeks with a fever is an eternity.

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What is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood?

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Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears.

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When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

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Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.

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Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.

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Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.

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Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all undertakings to swear eternal love; the fight at once commences and victory, that is to say liberty, remains in the hands of the cleverer of the two.

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Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.

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