Honore De Balzac Quotes, Promise Quotes, Fifteen Quotes

At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.

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I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing.

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Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.

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Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.

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No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.

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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

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The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness.

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Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

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Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.

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Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.

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Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

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Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.

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Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.

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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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For avarice begins where poverty ends.

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Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all undertakings to swear eternal love; the fight at once commences and victory, that is to say liberty, remains in the hands of the cleverer of the two.

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Like evil, sublimity is also contagious.

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Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.

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Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief.

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Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks, how he walks, if he has ever walked, if he could walk better, what he achieves in walking .. questions that are tied to all the philosophical, psychological, and political systems which preoccupy the world.

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