Honore De Balzac Quotes, Powerful Quotes, Passion Quotes

Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine or of opium. The lucidity our ideas then achieve, and the delicacy of our overly exalted sensations, produce the strangest and most unexpected effects.

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Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones.

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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

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

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To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.

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White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion and of the lamb, Prayer! Prayer will give you the key of heaven! Bold and pure as innocence, strong, like all that is single and simple, this glorious, invincible Queen rests, nevertheless, on the material world; she takes possession of it; like the sun, she clasps it in a circle of light.

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Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.

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Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.

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Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors.

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Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.

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Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,-she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth.

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

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We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing.

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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.

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Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently.

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Love knows nothing of modesty.

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In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.

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Beaucoup d'hommes ont un orgueil qui les pousse a' cacher leurs combats et a' ne se montrer que victorieux. Many men have pride that causes them to hide their combats and to only show themselves victorious.

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

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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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