Honore De Balzac Quotes, Cat Quotes, Blood Quotes

Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn.

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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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Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.

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What is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood?

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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

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It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.

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In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.

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Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation.

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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

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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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Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.

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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance

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Our souls possess the unknown power of extending as well as contracting space.

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It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.

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

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Now literary success can only be won in solitude by persevering labor.

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My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one."

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

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It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.

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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.

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