Honore De Balzac Quotes, Judging Quotes, Stifling Quotes

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

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Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a punch on the nose! And what a style he has!

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Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.

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Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense.

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One exits with one's husband -- one lives with one's lover.

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A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart.

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Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an alliance with virtue, that a woman never shows to full advantage except as a mother. Then alone can her character expand in the fulfillment of all life's duties and the enjoyment of all its pleasures.

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Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.

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Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.

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What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible.

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

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We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing.

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The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.

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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

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Nothing about me surprises me.

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The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.

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Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?

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Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.

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Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

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Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and men smile.

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