Honore De Balzac Quotes

Love which economizes is never true love.

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The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.

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There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.

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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.

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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles.

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Glory is the sunshine of the dead

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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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Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.

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This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fault for an excuse, which makes an outcry at the wound which it condones, is one of the most distinctive features of the journalist. This camaraderie (the word is a stroke of genius) corrodes the noblest minds; it eats into their pride like rust, kills the germ of great deeds, and lends a sanction to moral cowardice.

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Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.

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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.

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Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law. They all wear black, too, for are they not in mourning for every virtue and every illusion?

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A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.

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The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them.

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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance

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A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.

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There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.

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The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

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In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.

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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

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