Honore De Balzac Quotes, Beauty Quotes, Power Quotes

Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

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Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.

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It's not enough to be a good person. You also have to show it.

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White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion and of the lamb, Prayer! Prayer will give you the key of heaven! Bold and pure as innocence, strong, like all that is single and simple, this glorious, invincible Queen rests, nevertheless, on the material world; she takes possession of it; like the sun, she clasps it in a circle of light.

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One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a continuity of desire where Nature thought only of perpetuating the species; and, in fine, to have invented love.

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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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Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.

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Though your vulgarian does not readily admit that feelings can change overnight, certainly two lovers often part far more abruptly than they came together.

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Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge.

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Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.

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To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.

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All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can be brought to understand the value of that silence and solitude of spiritual worlds?

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Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime admiring it and discovering new and changing phenomena that delight them. So it is with love.

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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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If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

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Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.

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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

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Reading brings us unknown friends

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I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

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The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.

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