Honore De Balzac Quotes, Vices Quotes, Audacity Quotes

Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.

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Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?

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Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work.

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

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There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

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

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Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps.

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There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or the desolation of ruins. Within these houses there is, perhaps, the silence of the cloister, the barrenness of moors, the skeleton of ruins; life and movement are so stagnant there that a stranger might think them uninhabited, were it not that he encounters suddenly the pale, cold glance of a motionless person, whose half-monastic face peers beyond the window-casing at the sound of an unaccustomed step.

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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage.

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Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses.

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We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner side of human nature. This inner side is God's; the outer side belongs to men.

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A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.

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A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.

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The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true

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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

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Sensuality is the death of the soul.

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In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that bed, however hard it is.

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Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!

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Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.

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Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws; can you name one to which no fact makes an exception?

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