Honore De Balzac Quotes, Ideas Quotes, Justice Quotes

Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.

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God reveals Himself, unfailingly, to the solitary, thoughtful seeker

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All we are is in the soul.

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The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.

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A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.

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Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtue.

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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian, a treasure for a man of parts, and an abyss for a weakling.

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Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

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One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy.

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Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.

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Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime.

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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.

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Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.

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But does not happiness come from the soul within?

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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

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A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.

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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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It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought to a pitch of perfection which remains unknown to modern chemistry, but which is indisputably proved by history. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was at that time, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are lost.

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