Honore De Balzac Quotes

When in Turkey, do as the turkeys do.

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Pity is woman's sweetest charm.

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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

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A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.

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Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation.

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Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.

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There is nothing original; all is reflected light.

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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.

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In a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a woman.

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But also remember: if you have any genuine feelings, hide them like treasure; never let anyone so much as suspect them, or you're lost. Instead of being the executioner, you'll be the victim. And if you ever fall in love, keep that absolutely secret! Never breathe a word until you're completely sure of the person to whom you open your heart. And to protect that love, even before you feel it, learn to despise the world.

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

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All we are is in the soul.

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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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We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.

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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

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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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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

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

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Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

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