Honore De Balzac Quotes, Children Quotes, Two Quotes

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

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Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?

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Nothing is irredeemably ugly but sin.

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It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.

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

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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.

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The union of a want and a sentiment.

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France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same.

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A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

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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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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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Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.

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There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.

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Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.

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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

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Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.

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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

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When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

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It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome.

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