Honore De Balzac Quotes, Children Quotes, Effort Quotes

The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child. It involves the same efforts, the same impurities, the same laceration, and the same triumph.

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The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare.

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A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.

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

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Love is the most melodious of all harmonies.

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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.

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Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

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Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future.

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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

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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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If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving to that word its exact significance.

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Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.

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Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul like that frightful acid which penetrates crystal.

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Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.

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Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.

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To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live.... To stroll is to enjoy, it is to assume a mind-set, it is to admire the sublime pictures of unhappiness, of love, of joy, of graceful or grotesque portraits; it is to plunge one's vision to the depths of a thousand existences: young, it is to desire everything; old, it is to live the life of the young, to marry their passions.

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Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word.

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A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.

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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

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