Honore De Balzac Quotes, Drama Quotes, Passion Quotes

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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Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.

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The future of a nation lies in the hands of mothers.

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Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.

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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

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We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose.

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Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability.

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A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be to mention his mistress, if she is beautiful, to his wife.

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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

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The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true

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Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole.

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Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.

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Pity is woman's sweetest charm.

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A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.

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A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.

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No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.

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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

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To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

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One hour of love has a whole life in it.

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