Honore De Balzac Quotes

Love which economizes is never true love.

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Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.

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My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts.

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Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

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To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

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As soon as man seeks to penetrate the secrets of Nature--in which nothing is secret and it is but a question of seeing--he realizes that the simple produces the supernatural.

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Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.

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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

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There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

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For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

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Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.

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To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live.... To stroll is to enjoy, it is to assume a mind-set, it is to admire the sublime pictures of unhappiness, of love, of joy, of graceful or grotesque portraits; it is to plunge one's vision to the depths of a thousand existences: young, it is to desire everything; old, it is to live the life of the young, to marry their passions.

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When women love, they forgive everything...

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Many of us marvel at the icy insensitivity with which women snuff out their armours. But if they did not blot out the past in this manner, life for them would lose all dignity and they could never resist the fatal familiarities to which they once submitted.

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Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.

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Resignation is a daily suicide.

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Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.

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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.

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Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.

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