Honore De Balzac Quotes, Ideas Quotes, Justice Quotes

Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.

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A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.

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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.

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Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul like that frightful acid which penetrates crystal.

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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.

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Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.

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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.

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Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.

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Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.

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A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who wish earnestly that he should live, will recover (all other things being equal), when another patient tended by hirelings will die. Doctors decline to see unconscious magnestism in this phenomenon; for them it is the result of intelligent nursing, of exact obedience to their orders; but many a mother knows the virtue of such ardent projections of strong, unceasing prayer.

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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.

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Constancy will always be the genius of love, the indication of that strength which constitutes the poet. A man should possess all women in his wife, like those squalid poetasters of the seventeenth century who made fair Irises and dazzling Chloes of their lowly Manons.

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Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints.

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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

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

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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

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A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.

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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

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Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.

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