Honore De Balzac Quotes, Soul Quotes

Sensuality is the death of the soul.

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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.

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I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

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On the moral plane, true friends enjoy the same protection as the sense of smell confers upon dogs. They scent the sorrow of their friends, they divine its causes, and they clasp it to their minds and hearts.

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By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and their passions.

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To man, faith; to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two?

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The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn.

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It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.

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The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is of no account. In fact these Croesuses find whims and passions harder to come by than gold.

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

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Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.

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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.

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Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.

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They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.

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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.

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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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Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.

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Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.

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This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of the battlefield, and the battle takes place. Things remembered arrive at full gallop, ensuing to the wind. The light cavalry of comparisons deliver a magnificent deploying charge, the artillery of logic hurry up with their train and ammunition, the shafts of with start up like sharpshooters. Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and is concluded with torrents of black water, just as a battle with powder.

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