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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White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion and of the lamb, Prayer! Prayer will give you the key of heaven! Bold and pure as innocence, strong, like all that is single and simple, this glorious, invincible Queen rests, nevertheless, on the material world; she takes possession of it; like the sun, she clasps it in a circle of light.

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To speak of love is to make love.

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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.

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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.

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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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A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.

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True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit.

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To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.

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The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

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Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions.

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Does not any limit imposed upon one inspire a desire to go beyond it? Does not our keenest suffering arise when our free will is crossed?

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For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.

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We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

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He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.

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Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.

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Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole.

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Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks, how he walks, if he has ever walked, if he could walk better, what he achieves in walking .. questions that are tied to all the philosophical, psychological, and political systems which preoccupy the world.

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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.

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Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.

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