Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.
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The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.
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The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.
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Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears.
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There is something great and terrible about suicide.
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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
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A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.
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With monuments as with men, position means everything.
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Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.
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Conventions are often more cruel than the law.
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They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of them.
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It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.
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The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.
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A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings.
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In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.
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Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.
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It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.
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Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.