Best Honore de Balzac Qoutes
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Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.
Bad
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
Causes
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In France everything is a matter for jest. People make quips about the scaffold, about Napoleon's defeat on the banks of The Beresina, and about…
Assizes
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Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones.
Disdainfully
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A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.
Atheism
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Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden…
Any
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Love is the most melodious of all harmonies.
All
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What is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood?
Gladsome
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White hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young.
Age
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All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.
All
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
Avarice
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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard,…
Befits
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A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry is endless, she…
All
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My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one.
Advice
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Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all undertakings…
All
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
Cure
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
Both
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Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.
All
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She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her strength, her pride,…
Bone
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
Completely
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The questioning spirit is the rebellious spirit. A rebellion is always either a cloak to hide a prince, or the swaddling wrapper of a new…
Always Either
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Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues.
Bonheur
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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;…
All
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White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion and…
All
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Beaucoup d'hommes ont un orgueil qui les pousse a' cacher leurs combats et a' ne se montrer que victorieux. Many men have pride that causes…
Beaucoup
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