Honore De Balzac Quotes, Love Quotes, Eye Quotes

A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who is in love no longer belongs to himself, and may not take his own life. Love makes us almost sacred in our own eyes; it is the life of another that we revere within us; then and so begins for us the cruelest trouble of all.

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Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints.

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A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.

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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

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If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

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A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.

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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.

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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.

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Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights.

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Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.

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No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.

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Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

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The monotony of provincial life attracts the attention of people to the kitchen. You do not dine as luxuriously in the provinces as in Paris, but you dine better, because the dishes serve you are the result of mediation and study.

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She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her strength, her pride, and happiness are centered.

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Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?

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Now literary success can only be won in solitude by persevering labor.

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To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold.

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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

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Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.

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Many of us marvel at the icy insensitivity with which women snuff out their armours. But if they did not blot out the past in this manner, life for them would lose all dignity and they could never resist the fatal familiarities to which they once submitted.

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