Honore De Balzac Quotes, Humility Quotes, Body Quotes

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

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Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.

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Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.

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When an intelligent man reaches the point of inviting self-explanation and offers surrendering the key to his heart, he is assuredly riding a drunken horse.

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Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones.

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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

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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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Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.

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

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For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.

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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

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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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Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.

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To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

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

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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.

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The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.

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A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders.

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