Honore De Balzac Quotes, Block Quotes, Believe Quotes

A grass blade believes that men build palaces for it to grow in. Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of marble and it brings them down. This power of feeble life which can creep in anywhere is greater than that of the mighty behind their cannons.

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The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred

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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles.

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Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.

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Ah! the soft starlight of virgin eyes.

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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.

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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.

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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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The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.

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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

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Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

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The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

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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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Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage.

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In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.

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

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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

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Even beauty cannot always palliate eccentricity.

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The questioning spirit is the rebellious spirit. A rebellion is always either a cloak to hide a prince, or the swaddling wrapper of a new rule.

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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

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