Honore De Balzac Quotes, Positive Quotes, Cutting Quotes

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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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

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Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.

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Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion.

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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

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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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Though your vulgarian does not readily admit that feelings can change overnight, certainly two lovers often part far more abruptly than they came together.

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Our souls possess the unknown power of extending as well as contracting space.

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Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.

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All human power is a compound of time and patience.

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Only when one has learned to acknowledge that wiser minds have made better words to come out of our mouths may we truly, then, begin to speak them.

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To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.

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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

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A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and amend; but a spy is always a spy, night and day, in bed, at table, as he walks abroad; his vileness pervades every moment of his life

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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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When women love, they forgive everything...

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Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune.

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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

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