Honore De Balzac Quotes, People Quotes, Generosity Quotes

As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

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True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit.

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Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.'

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The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.

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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!

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

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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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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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As a rule, only the poor are generous.

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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.

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A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.

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Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

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In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.

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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.

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Women, perhaps even require a little hypocrisy.

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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

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Nothing about me surprises me.

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In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that bed, however hard it is.

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Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.

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