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From Quotes by Honore de Balzac
- An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
- First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
- 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…
- Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
- If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former…
- The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all…
- Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.
- Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret…
- Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.
- The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true
- Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.
- From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.
- 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…
- All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.
- 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…
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