Honore de Balzac Quotes
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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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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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Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.
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Sensuality is the death of the soul.
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I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
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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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There is nothing original; all is reflected light.
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The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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L'amour n'est pas seulement un sentiment, il est un art aussi. Love is not only a feeling; it is also an art.
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The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.
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The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes.
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Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.
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Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws; can you name one to which no fact makes an exception?
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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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Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis.
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The future of a nation lies in the hands of mothers.
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Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
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It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.