Honore De Balzac Quotes

All we are is in the soul.

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He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.

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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

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Nothing about me surprises me.

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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.

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Ah! the soft starlight of virgin eyes.

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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.

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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

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Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues.

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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.

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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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Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

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Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge.

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A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

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Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and men smile.

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When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm.

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Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy.

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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

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