Honore De Balzac Quotes, Heart Quotes, Character Quotes

What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations for the furtherance of our own pleasures. Seeing himself now in his fine clothes, his new gloves and shoes, Eugène de Rastignac forgot his noble resolve. Youth, when it swerves toward wrong, dares not look in the mirror of conscience; maturity has already seen itself there. That is the whole difference between the two phases of life.

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A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.

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Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability.

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Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.

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Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.

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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.

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Modesty is the conscience of the body.

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Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.

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But does not happiness come from the soul within?

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All human power is a compound of time and patience.

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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

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Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.

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When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.

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A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.

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Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy.

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The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.

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Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently.

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The monotony of provincial life attracts the attention of people to the kitchen. You do not dine as luxuriously in the provinces as in Paris, but you dine better, because the dishes serve you are the result of mediation and study.

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We are scarcely apt to berate the source of enjoyment.

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The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn.

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