Honore De Balzac Quotes, Selfishness Quotes, Courtesy Quotes

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

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True love rules especially through memory.

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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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Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.

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With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.

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Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.

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It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.

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For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

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Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.

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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

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Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.

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A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart.

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

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Reading brings us unknown friends

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One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.

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One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy.

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To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.

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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.

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True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit.

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