Honore De Balzac Quotes, Friendship Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.

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France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same.

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A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.

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Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.

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Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains; while the angelic spirit sees and understands. Science saddens man; love enraptures the angel; science is still seeking; love has found.

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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

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Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.

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Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.

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

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What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations for the furtherance of our own pleasures. Seeing himself now in his fine clothes, his new gloves and shoes, Eugène de Rastignac forgot his noble resolve. Youth, when it swerves toward wrong, dares not look in the mirror of conscience; maturity has already seen itself there. That is the whole difference between the two phases of life.

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Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink...

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Though your vulgarian does not readily admit that feelings can change overnight, certainly two lovers often part far more abruptly than they came together.

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Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.

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

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All human power is a compound of time and patience.

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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.

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To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.

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Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.

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Only when one has learned to acknowledge that wiser minds have made better words to come out of our mouths may we truly, then, begin to speak them.

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