Honore De Balzac Quotes, Heart Quotes, Pride Quotes

Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly exerted for a fragile and defenceless creature?

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Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

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If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.

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Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.

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The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred

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All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.

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Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God

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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?

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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.

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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

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Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.

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A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.

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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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France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same.

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The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness.

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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

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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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Alas, two men are often necessary to provide a woman with a perfect lover, just as in literature a writer composes a type only by employing the singularities of several similar characters.

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Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats

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It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought to a pitch of perfection which remains unknown to modern chemistry, but which is indisputably proved by history. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was at that time, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are lost.

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