Honore De Balzac Quotes, Pride Quotes, Men Quotes

Beaucoup d'hommes ont un orgueil qui les pousse a' cacher leurs combats et a' ne se montrer que victorieux. Many men have pride that causes them to hide their combats and to only show themselves victorious.

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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

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Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.

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Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.

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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.

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Women, perhaps even require a little hypocrisy.

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Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

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If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving to that word its exact significance.

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The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.

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For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth.

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A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.

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In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.

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Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.

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

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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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One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings carry them away. Even their dissimulation comes naturally to them, and in them crime is free of all baseness. Most of the time they simply do not know how it happened.

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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.

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On the moral plane, true friends enjoy the same protection as the sense of smell confers upon dogs. They scent the sorrow of their friends, they divine its causes, and they clasp it to their minds and hearts.

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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.

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He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.

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