Honore De Balzac Quotes, Heart Quotes, Pride Quotes

A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart.

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When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.

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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

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Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.

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Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief.

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No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.

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[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it is in ourselves, an interpreter for the communication of ideas and sensations, an exhaustless source of poetic inspiration. Every figure is a world in itself, a portrait of which the original appeared in a sublime vision, in a flood of light, pointed to by an inward voice, laid bare by a divine finger which showed what the sources of expression had been in the whole past life of the subject.

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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.

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

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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 more one judges, the less one loves.

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If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

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Beaucoup d'hommes ont un orgueil qui les pousse a' cacher leurs combats et a' ne se montrer que victorieux. Many men have pride that causes them to hide their combats and to only show themselves victorious.

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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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Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.

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In the silence of their studios, busied for days at a time with works which leave the mind relatively free, painters become like women; their thoughts can revolve around the minor facts of life and penetrate their hidden meaning.

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Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.

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In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.

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Grief ennobles the commonest people because it has its own essential grandeur. To shine with the luster of grief, a person need only be sincere.

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The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.

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