Honore De Balzac Quotes, Love Quotes, Sea Quotes

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 man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

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One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.

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Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently.

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Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.

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Pity is woman's sweetest charm.

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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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The man whom fate employs to awaken love in the heart of a young girl is often unaware of his work and therefore leaves it uncompleted.

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The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.

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But woman brings disorder into society through passion.

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It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome.

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Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.

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In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.

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Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the glory of a noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face.

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White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion and of the lamb, Prayer! Prayer will give you the key of heaven! Bold and pure as innocence, strong, like all that is single and simple, this glorious, invincible Queen rests, nevertheless, on the material world; she takes possession of it; like the sun, she clasps it in a circle of light.

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

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Un mari, comme un gouvernement, ne doit jamais avouer de faute. A husband, like a government, never needs to admit a fault.

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Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.

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Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and men smile.

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