Honore De Balzac Quotes, Wine Quotes

Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune.

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

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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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Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.

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What moralist can deny that well-bred and vicious people are much more agreeable than their virtuous counterparts? Having crimes to atone for, they provisionally solicit indulgence by showing leniency toward the defects of their judges. Thus they pass for excellent folk.

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If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving to that word its exact significance.

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Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?

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To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold.

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

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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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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

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I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense.

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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

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Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you have read this story of great misfortunes, you will no doubt dine well, blaming the author for your own insensitivity, accusing him of wild exaggeration and flights of fancy. But rest assured: this tragedy is not a fiction. All is true.

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A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be to mention his mistress, if she is beautiful, to his wife.

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Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.

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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

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I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

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Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.

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