Honore De Balzac Quotes

Even beauty cannot always palliate eccentricity.

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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

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A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

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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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Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.

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Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?

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

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When an intelligent man reaches the point of inviting self-explanation and offers surrendering the key to his heart, he is assuredly riding a drunken horse.

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Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy.

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A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.

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Lovers have a way of using this word "nothing" which implies exactly the opposite.

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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

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Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.

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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.

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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.

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A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart.

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Finance, like time, devours its own children.

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Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears.

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Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.

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