Honore De Balzac Quotes, Liberty Quotes, Triumph Quotes

Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.

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The glutton is much more than an animal and much less than a man.

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In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that bed, however hard it is.

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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.

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In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.

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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.

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Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws; can you name one to which no fact makes an exception?

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Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

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Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.

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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

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A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders.

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When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.

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

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Nothing is irredeemably ugly but sin.

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Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn.

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Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

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No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.

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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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I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

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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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