Honore De Balzac Quotes, Spirit Quotes

Vivacity is the health of the spirit.

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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.

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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.

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It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

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We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose.

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For businessmen, the world is a bale of banknotes in circulation; for most young men, it is a woman; for some women, it is a man; and for others it may be a salon, a coterie, a part of town or a whole city.

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Beaucoup d'hommes ont un orgueil qui les pousse a' cacher leurs combats et a' ne se montrer que victorieux. Many men have pride that causes them to hide their combats and to only show themselves victorious.

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Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

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There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at the touch of consoling words, that would reveal the depths of our pain.

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Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

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Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.

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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

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An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.

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One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings carry them away. Even their dissimulation comes naturally to them, and in them crime is free of all baseness. Most of the time they simply do not know how it happened.

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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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You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

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It's not enough to be a good person. You also have to show it.

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Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

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I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

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Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently.

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