Honore De Balzac Quotes, People Quotes, Mind Quotes

When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.

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By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.

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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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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

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Inspiration is the opportunity of genius.

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Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.

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To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold.

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Does not any limit imposed upon one inspire a desire to go beyond it? Does not our keenest suffering arise when our free will is crossed?

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Necessity is often the spur to genius.

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And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

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Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

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There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or the desolation of ruins. Within these houses there is, perhaps, the silence of the cloister, the barrenness of moors, the skeleton of ruins; life and movement are so stagnant there that a stranger might think them uninhabited, were it not that he encounters suddenly the pale, cold glance of a motionless person, whose half-monastic face peers beyond the window-casing at the sound of an unaccustomed step.

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Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.

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

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A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.

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Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.

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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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The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child. It involves the same efforts, the same impurities, the same laceration, and the same triumph.

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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

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