Honore De Balzac Quotes, Doe Quotes, Martyr Quotes

A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

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God reveals Himself, unfailingly, to the solitary, thoughtful seeker

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A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.

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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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Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.

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A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her lover. This is all the more true when that woman is young, pretty, and so decollete as to emerge from the neck of her gown in the costume of Eve.

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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage.

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Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole.

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Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

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In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.

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The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

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Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.

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Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

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Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.

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In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.

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Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime admiring it and discovering new and changing phenomena that delight them. So it is with love.

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Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an alliance with virtue, that a woman never shows to full advantage except as a mother. Then alone can her character expand in the fulfillment of all life's duties and the enjoyment of all its pleasures.

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Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

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An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.

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At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

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