Honore De Balzac Quotes, Half Quotes

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

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The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

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Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis.

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All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow.

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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

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

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Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues.

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When one of those skirt-bearing animals has set herself up above all by permitting herself to be deified, no power on earth can be as proud as she.

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As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.

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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

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Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?

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

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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.

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A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.

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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

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The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.

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Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.

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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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