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Good Quotes by Honore de Balzac
- A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
- Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.
- Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
- A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
- The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true
- There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.
- Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.
- 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…
- The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
- And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.
- How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene. 'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to go there in…
- You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.
- Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.
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