Honore De Balzac Quotes, Voice Quotes, Echoes Quotes

A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.

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With monuments as with men, position means everything.

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Le mariage doit incessamment combattre un monstre qui de v ore tout: l'habitude. Marriage should always combat the monster that devours everything: habit.

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The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is of no account. In fact these Croesuses find whims and passions harder to come by than gold.

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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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There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.

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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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There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.

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The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

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Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshnessof a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty.

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La femme marie e est un esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un tro" n e. A married woman is a slave whom one must put on a throne.

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Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.

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A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.

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Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.

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The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them.

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Like evil, sublimity is also contagious.

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But also remember: if you have any genuine feelings, hide them like treasure; never let anyone so much as suspect them, or you're lost. Instead of being the executioner, you'll be the victim. And if you ever fall in love, keep that absolutely secret! Never breathe a word until you're completely sure of the person to whom you open your heart. And to protect that love, even before you feel it, learn to despise the world.

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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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A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry is endless, she shrouds herself in veil after veil, she satisfies every demand of man's vanity, the novice responds but to one.

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