Honore De Balzac Quotes

I am not deep, but I am very wide.

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I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing.

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The fashions we call English in Paris are French in London, and vice versa. Franco-British hostility vanishes when it comes to questions of words and clothing. God save the King is a tune composed by Lully for a chorus in a play by Racine.

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The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.

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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.

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Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.

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Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune.

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He who best knows the world will love it least.

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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

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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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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.

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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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Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy.

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Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

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We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose.

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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

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Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work.

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A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye, a mere word, an inflection of the voice or a moment's hesitation suffice to expose the fact, betrayal or crime he is attempting to conceal.

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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

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The monotony of provincial life attracts the attention of people to the kitchen. You do not dine as luxuriously in the provinces as in Paris, but you dine better, because the dishes serve you are the result of mediation and study.

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