Honore De Balzac Quotes, Light Quotes

There is nothing original; all is reflected light.

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

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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.

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We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner side of human nature. This inner side is God's; the outer side belongs to men.

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To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live.... To stroll is to enjoy, it is to assume a mind-set, it is to admire the sublime pictures of unhappiness, of love, of joy, of graceful or grotesque portraits; it is to plunge one's vision to the depths of a thousand existences: young, it is to desire everything; old, it is to live the life of the young, to marry their passions.

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A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.

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Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.

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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.

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We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.

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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

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Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.

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Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains; while the angelic spirit sees and understands. Science saddens man; love enraptures the angel; science is still seeking; love has found.

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A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.

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

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

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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

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Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.

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Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.

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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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The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

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