Honore De Balzac Quotes, Positive Quotes, Cutting Quotes

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

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A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her lover. This is all the more true when that woman is young, pretty, and so decollete as to emerge from the neck of her gown in the costume of Eve.

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No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.

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The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.

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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

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No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game from afar is comparable in speed to the celerity of a salesman when he gets wind a deal, to his skill in tripping up or forestalling a rival, and to the art with which he sniffs out and discovers a possible sale.

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Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

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L'amour n'est pas seulement un sentiment, il est un art aussi. Love is not only a feeling; it is also an art.

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Glory is the sunshine of the dead

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When one of those skirt-bearing animals has set herself up above all by permitting herself to be deified, no power on earth can be as proud as she.

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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

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The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

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Inspiration is the opportunity of genius.

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From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.

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Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity in the middle of winter.

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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.

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One exits with one's husband -- one lives with one's lover.

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Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.

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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

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While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.

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