Honore De Balzac Quotes, Promise Quotes, Fifteen Quotes

At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.

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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.

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When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.

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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.

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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

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

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This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of the battlefield, and the battle takes place. Things remembered arrive at full gallop, ensuing to the wind. The light cavalry of comparisons deliver a magnificent deploying charge, the artillery of logic hurry up with their train and ammunition, the shafts of with start up like sharpshooters. Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and is concluded with torrents of black water, just as a battle with powder.

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The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.

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If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous hopes, and commit sin only after wandering through a maze of sorrows.

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Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy.

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Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

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We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing.

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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.

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Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.

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Religious ecstasy is a madness of thought freed of its bodily bonds, whereas in the ecstasy of love, the forces of twin natures unite, blend and embrace one another.

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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!

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In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.

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Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats

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True love rules especially through memory.

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