Best Honore de Balzac Proverbs
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It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.
Book
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Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in,…
Agitated
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The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes.
Deceive
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In Paris, the greatest expression of personal satisfaction known to man is the smirk on the face of a male, highly pleased with himself as…
Boudoir
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The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred
Fact
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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…
Actors
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Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.
Each
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Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.
Abilities
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Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief.
Anxious
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When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.
Action
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A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders.
Always Deceive
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Even beauty cannot always palliate eccentricity.
Beauty
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The glutton is much more than an animal and much less than a man.
Animal
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Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.
Acts
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
Him
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Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law. They all wear…
All
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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their…
End
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world…
Divine
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As soon as man seeks to penetrate the secrets of Nature--in which nothing is secret and it is but a question of seeing--he realizes that…
Man
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Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors.
Affair
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With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to…
Always Make
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When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the passionate woman…
Disgust
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No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.
Avenged
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It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome.
Lies
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God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven.
Author
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