Honore De Balzac Quotes, Paris Quotes, Doe Quotes

Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?]

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Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.

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Passion is born deaf and dumb.

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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.

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One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l'Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard.

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We are scarcely apt to berate the source of enjoyment.

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When women love, they forgive everything...

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But also remember: if you have any genuine feelings, hide them like treasure; never let anyone so much as suspect them, or you're lost. Instead of being the executioner, you'll be the victim. And if you ever fall in love, keep that absolutely secret! Never breathe a word until you're completely sure of the person to whom you open your heart. And to protect that love, even before you feel it, learn to despise the world.

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Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.

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It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.

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All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can be brought to understand the value of that silence and solitude of spiritual worlds?

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Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshnessof a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty.

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I am not deep, but I am very wide.

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In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.

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Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.

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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

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Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.

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To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.

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All we are is in the soul.

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