Honore De Balzac Quotes, Love Quotes, Modesty Quotes

Love knows nothing of modesty.

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Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short, to the spirits everything speaks.

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True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit.

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One exits with one's husband -- one lives with one's lover.

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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

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A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is weak when composed of scattered individuals, to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind in their wretched egotism, to the fact that the day is coming when this too will be torn from them.

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For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

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The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.

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One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy.

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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.

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Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.

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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!

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Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.

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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

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It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.

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Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.

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The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.

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When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm.

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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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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

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