Honore De Balzac Quotes, Civilization Quotes, Ignorant Quotes

If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

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For businessmen, the world is a bale of banknotes in circulation; for most young men, it is a woman; for some women, it is a man; and for others it may be a salon, a coterie, a part of town or a whole city.

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Your women of fashion ceases to be a woman. She is neither mother, nor wife, nor lover. She is, medically speaking, sex on the brain.

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One hour of love has a whole life in it.

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For avarice begins where poverty ends.

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All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

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Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.

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Love is the poetry of the senses.

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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!

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Poles offer a mobility like that of the wind that blows over the immense plains and marches of Poland. Show a Pole a precipice, and he will leap headlong over it.

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By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate.

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All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.

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When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm.

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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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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.

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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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Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an alliance with virtue, that a woman never shows to full advantage except as a mother. Then alone can her character expand in the fulfillment of all life's duties and the enjoyment of all its pleasures.

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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

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Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.

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Modesty is the conscience of the body.

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