Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Modesty is the conscience of the body.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.
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There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.
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For avarice begins where poverty ends.
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It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.
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Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?
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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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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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A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.
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As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.
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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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La femme marie e est un esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un tro" n e. A married woman is a slave whom one must put on a throne.
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Love knows nothing of modesty.
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Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.
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White hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young.
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Six weeks with a fever is an eternity.
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From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.
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Necessity is the spur of genius.
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.