Honore De Balzac Quotes, People Quotes, Generosity Quotes

As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

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Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.

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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

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Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.

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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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Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.

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La femme marie e est un esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un tro" n e. A married woman is a slave whom one must put on a throne.

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Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.

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You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth.

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Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.

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Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

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Religious ecstasy is a madness of thought freed of its bodily bonds, whereas in the ecstasy of love, the forces of twin natures unite, blend and embrace one another.

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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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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

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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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Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.

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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

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A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.

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

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