Honore De Balzac Quotes, Half Quotes

Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

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Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audacious of enterprises; the battle is not slow to start, and victory, that is to say freedom, goes to the cleverest.

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A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who is in love no longer belongs to himself, and may not take his own life. Love makes us almost sacred in our own eyes; it is the life of another that we revere within us; then and so begins for us the cruelest trouble of all.

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If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.

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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

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The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes.

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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.

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And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

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Clouds signify the veil of the Most High.

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Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

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

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Love is a game in which one always cheats.

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Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all undertakings to swear eternal love; the fight at once commences and victory, that is to say liberty, remains in the hands of the cleverer of the two.

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Necessity is the spur of genius.

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I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense.

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Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.

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Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine or of opium. The lucidity our ideas then achieve, and the delicacy of our overly exalted sensations, produce the strangest and most unexpected effects.

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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

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