Honore De Balzac Quotes, Goes On Quotes

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.

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A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.

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Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short, to the spirits everything speaks.

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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.

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Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtue.

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The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is of no account. In fact these Croesuses find whims and passions harder to come by than gold.

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Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.

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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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Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.

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Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.

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Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.

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Le coeur d'une me' re est un ab|"me au fond duquel se trouve toujours un pardon. A mother'sheart isanabyss atthebottomof whichthere is always forgiveness.

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We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.

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A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

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When women love, they forgive everything...

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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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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.

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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

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No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.

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