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Most Quotes by Honore de Balzac
- The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
- Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
- Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part…
- 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…
- Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.
- Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
- I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you,…
- Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.
- Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring a circle.
- Love is the most melodious of all harmonies.
- What is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood?
- Clouds signify the veil of the Most High.
- The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.
- Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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