Honore De Balzac Quotes, Passion Quotes, Giving Quotes

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.

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There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.

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Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

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Ah! the soft starlight of virgin eyes.

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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

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This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fault for an excuse, which makes an outcry at the wound which it condones, is one of the most distinctive features of the journalist. This camaraderie (the word is a stroke of genius) corrodes the noblest minds; it eats into their pride like rust, kills the germ of great deeds, and lends a sanction to moral cowardice.

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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.

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

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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

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God reveals Himself, unfailingly, to the solitary, thoughtful seeker

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A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.

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One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.

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As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.

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A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers.

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Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly exerted for a fragile and defenceless creature?

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Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.

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It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought to a pitch of perfection which remains unknown to modern chemistry, but which is indisputably proved by history. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was at that time, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are lost.

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One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings carry them away. Even their dissimulation comes naturally to them, and in them crime is free of all baseness. Most of the time they simply do not know how it happened.

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