Honore De Balzac Quotes, Work Quotes, Pride Quotes

This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fault for an excuse, which makes an outcry at the wound which it condones, is one of the most distinctive features of the journalist. This camaraderie (the word is a stroke of genius) corrodes the noblest minds; it eats into their pride like rust, kills the germ of great deeds, and lends a sanction to moral cowardice.

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Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

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Temperament is the thermometer of character.

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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!

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The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.

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They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.

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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

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Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people; but it has also a sublime faith in them.

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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.

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True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit.

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Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.

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Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains; while the angelic spirit sees and understands. Science saddens man; love enraptures the angel; science is still seeking; love has found.

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Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.

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Nos beaux sentiments ne sont-ils pas les poe sies de la volonte ? Aren't our best feelings poetry of the will?

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God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven.

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The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.

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Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps.

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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!

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No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.

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