Honore De Balzac Quotes, Stitches Quotes, Thread Quotes

From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.

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The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

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Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the glory of a noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face.

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When women love, they forgive everything...

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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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What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible.

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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.

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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

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Religious ecstasy is a madness of thought freed of its bodily bonds, whereas in the ecstasy of love, the forces of twin natures unite, blend and embrace one another.

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The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true

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Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.

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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles.

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Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage.

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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

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Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge.

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A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and amend; but a spy is always a spy, night and day, in bed, at table, as he walks abroad; his vileness pervades every moment of his life

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I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.

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We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing.

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If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving to that word its exact significance.

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One exits with one's husband -- one lives with one's lover.

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