Honore De Balzac Quotes, Nature Quotes, Flower Quotes

A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers.

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Poles offer a mobility like that of the wind that blows over the immense plains and marches of Poland. Show a Pole a precipice, and he will leap headlong over it.

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Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshnessof a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty.

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Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.

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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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Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.

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

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Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.

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Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

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

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Our souls possess the unknown power of extending as well as contracting space.

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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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Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.

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

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Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.

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With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.

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Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.

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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.

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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.

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