Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.
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Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.
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The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.
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Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies in the apathetic indolence with which they commit or suffer good and evil.
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Un mari, comme un gouvernement, ne doit jamais avouer de faute. A husband, like a government, never needs to admit a fault.
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Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.
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A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.
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Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!
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Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.
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When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.
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A lui la foi, a' elle le doute, a' elle le fardeau le plus lourd: la femme ne souffre-t-elle pas toujours pour deux? For him, faith; for her, doubt and for her theheavier load: does not the woman always suffer for both?
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Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God.
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Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enermous there's a real risk it could shatter them.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.
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Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.
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The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.
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A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.