Honore De Balzac Quotes, Two Quotes, Gowns Quotes

Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.

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A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

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The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth.

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We are scarcely apt to berate the source of enjoyment.

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Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.

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Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.

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You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth.

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Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.

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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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When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm.

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By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate.

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When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the passionate woman with disgust.

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The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

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At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives only for him, her thoughts are full of his future, he must have a great career, she bids him make it glorious; she can obey, entreat, command, humble herself, or rise in pride; times without number she brings comfort when a young girl can only make moan.

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

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The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.

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Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.

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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

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Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.

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