Honore De Balzac Quotes, Half Quotes, Want Quotes

How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene. 'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to go there in my own carriage, have my own box, and come back in comfort. All or nothing, that's my motto.' 'And a very good one,' said Madame Vauquer.

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Love knows nothing of modesty.

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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

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L'amour n'est pas seulement un sentiment, il est un art aussi. Love is not only a feeling; it is also an art.

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An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.

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In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.

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Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.

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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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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.

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Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.

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Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps.

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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

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It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

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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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The union of a want and a sentiment.

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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

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He who best knows the world will love it least.

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Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God

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Resignation is a daily suicide.

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