Honore De Balzac Quotes, Giving Quotes

The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.

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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.

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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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For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.

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When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has a love affair, she is obliged to hoodwink her uncle.

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Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.

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I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.

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Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance kills the happiest passion.

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There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.

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When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.

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What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible.

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Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory.

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

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It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

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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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Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.

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

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In the silence of their studios, busied for days at a time with works which leave the mind relatively free, painters become like women; their thoughts can revolve around the minor facts of life and penetrate their hidden meaning.

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A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers.

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