Honore De Balzac Quotes, Vices Quotes, Audacity Quotes

Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.

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The man whom fate employs to awaken love in the heart of a young girl is often unaware of his work and therefore leaves it uncompleted.

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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

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Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

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For avarice begins where poverty ends.

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There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.

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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

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Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

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When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.

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According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on.

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Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves!

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Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime admiring it and discovering new and changing phenomena that delight them. So it is with love.

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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.

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Economized love is never real love.

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It's not enough to be a good person. You also have to show it.

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He who best knows the world will love it least.

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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

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If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

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Authentic love always assumes the mystery of modesty, even in its expression, because actions speak louder than words. Unlike a feigned love, it feels no need to set a conflagration.

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