Honore De Balzac Quotes, World Quotes

He who best knows the world will love it least.

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Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

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Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a punch on the nose! And what a style he has!

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Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

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A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who wish earnestly that he should live, will recover (all other things being equal), when another patient tended by hirelings will die. Doctors decline to see unconscious magnestism in this phenomenon; for them it is the result of intelligent nursing, of exact obedience to their orders; but many a mother knows the virtue of such ardent projections of strong, unceasing prayer.

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

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In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.

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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.

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Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.

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Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will.

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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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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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To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.

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The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.

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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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Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.

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Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.

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