Honore De Balzac Quotes, Mean Quotes, Men Quotes

Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.

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The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.

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

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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

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The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth.

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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.

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Pity is woman's sweetest charm.

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Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes.

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Necessity is often the spur to genius.

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To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.

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A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is weak when composed of scattered individuals, to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind in their wretched egotism, to the fact that the day is coming when this too will be torn from them.

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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!

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Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enermous there's a real risk it could shatter them.

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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.

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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.

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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

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By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and their passions.

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Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats

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Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights.

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All human power is a compound of time and patience.

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