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Funny Quotes by Honoré De Balzac
- To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
- No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
- We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
- Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
- When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.
- We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.
- All we are is in the soul.
- Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will.
- There is nothing original; all is reflected light.
- Even beauty cannot always palliate eccentricity.
- Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones.
- There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
- Le mariage doit incessamment combattre un monstre qui de v ore tout: l'habitude. Marriage should always combat the monster that devours everything: habit.
- Le coeur d'une me' re est un ab|"me au fond duquel se trouve toujours un pardon. A mother'sheart isanabyss atthebottomof whichthere is always forgiveness.
- Un mari, comme un gouvernement, ne doit jamais avouer de faute. A husband, like a government, never needs to admit a fault.
- Clouds signify the veil of the Most High.
- The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.
- I am not deep, but I am very wide.
- While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.
- Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.
- True love rules especially through memory.
- Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.
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