Honore De Balzac Quotes, Hate Quotes, Men Quotes

The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance, but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.

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If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.

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Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.

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We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose.

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Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves.

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When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the passionate woman with disgust.

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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.

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In the silence of their studios, busied for days at a time with works which leave the mind relatively free, painters become like women; their thoughts can revolve around the minor facts of life and penetrate their hidden meaning.

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Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

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Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.

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Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future.

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Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.

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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.

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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.

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Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense.

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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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Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.

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Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.

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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.

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Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn.

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