Honore De Balzac Quotes, Feelings Quotes

Nos beaux sentiments ne sont-ils pas les poe sies de la volonte ? Aren't our best feelings poetry of the will?

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Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

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By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.

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Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.

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Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.

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When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the passionate woman with disgust.

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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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While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.

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For the person who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience.

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Poles offer a mobility like that of the wind that blows over the immense plains and marches of Poland. Show a Pole a precipice, and he will leap headlong over it.

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

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

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In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women.

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The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.

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However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will often, under the stress of passion, achieve heights of eloquence, in thought if not in language, and seem to move in some luminous sphere. Goriot's voice and gesture had at this moment the power of communication that characterizes the great actor. Are not our finer feelings the poems of the human will?

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The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.

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The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

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One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a continuity of desire where Nature thought only of perpetuating the species; and, in fine, to have invented love.

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

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Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and men smile.

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