Honore De Balzac Quotes, Hours Quotes, Whole Life Quotes

One hour of love has a whole life in it.

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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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While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.

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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

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No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.

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Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.

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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.

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Inspiration is the opportunity of genius.

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Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.

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Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

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It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.

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Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?

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In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.

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Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul like that frightful acid which penetrates crystal.

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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

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We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose.

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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.

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Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.

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