Honore De Balzac Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Grief Quotes

It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of hope but grief looms start and stripped of all veils.

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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.

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For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?

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But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

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In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women.

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Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audacious of enterprises; the battle is not slow to start, and victory, that is to say freedom, goes to the cleverest.

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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.

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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

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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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Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work.

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All we are is in the soul.

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Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.

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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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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

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When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.

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Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.

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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

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A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

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