Honore De Balzac Quotes, Mother Quotes, Loss Quotes

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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You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.

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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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Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis.

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Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly exerted for a fragile and defenceless creature?

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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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No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.

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The fashions we call English in Paris are French in London, and vice versa. Franco-British hostility vanishes when it comes to questions of words and clothing. God save the King is a tune composed by Lully for a chorus in a play by Racine.

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Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.

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

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When in Turkey, do as the turkeys do.

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Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.

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From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.

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To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live.... To stroll is to enjoy, it is to assume a mind-set, it is to admire the sublime pictures of unhappiness, of love, of joy, of graceful or grotesque portraits; it is to plunge one's vision to the depths of a thousand existences: young, it is to desire everything; old, it is to live the life of the young, to marry their passions.

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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

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We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.

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The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child. It involves the same efforts, the same impurities, the same laceration, and the same triumph.

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

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