Honore De Balzac Quotes, Eye Quotes, Tongue Quotes

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

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If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.

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Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.

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Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future.

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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

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When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more?

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A grass blade believes that men build palaces for it to grow in. Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of marble and it brings them down. This power of feeble life which can creep in anywhere is greater than that of the mighty behind their cannons.

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Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

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Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.

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When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the passionate woman with disgust.

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Vivacity is the health of the spirit.

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Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation.

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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.

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They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of them.

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It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

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In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.

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When in Turkey, do as the turkeys do.

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My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts.

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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.

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All happiness depends on courage and work.

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