Honore De Balzac Quotes, Love Quotes, Life Quotes

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

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In Paris, the greatest expression of personal satisfaction known to man is the smirk on the face of a male, highly pleased with himself as he leaves the boudoir of a lady.

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Now literary success can only be won in solitude by persevering labor.

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

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The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can.

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Sensuality is the death of the soul.

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To man, faith; to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two?

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Finance, like time, devours its own children.

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Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.

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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

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But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

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Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.

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

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I am not deep, but I am very wide.

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A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is weak when composed of scattered individuals, to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind in their wretched egotism, to the fact that the day is coming when this too will be torn from them.

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She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her strength, her pride, and happiness are centered.

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Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.

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Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge.

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Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.

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