Honore De Balzac Quotes, Pride Quotes, Men Quotes

Beaucoup d'hommes ont un orgueil qui les pousse a' cacher leurs combats et a' ne se montrer que victorieux. Many men have pride that causes them to hide their combats and to only show themselves victorious.

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When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.

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It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought to a pitch of perfection which remains unknown to modern chemistry, but which is indisputably proved by history. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was at that time, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are lost.

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Six weeks with a fever is an eternity.

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Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.

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A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.

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Nothing is irredeemably ugly but sin.

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Passion is born deaf and dumb.

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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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Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.

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Love is a game in which one always cheats.

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Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.

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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.

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Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.

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When women love, they forgive everything...

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Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.

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A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.

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No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.

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The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.

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