Honore De Balzac Quotes, Keys Quotes, Joy Quotes

Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyments have been intellectual joys.

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All human power is a compound of time and patience.

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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!

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Even beauty cannot always palliate eccentricity.

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We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

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Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains; while the angelic spirit sees and understands. Science saddens man; love enraptures the angel; science is still seeking; love has found.

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Your women of fashion ceases to be a woman. She is neither mother, nor wife, nor lover. She is, medically speaking, sex on the brain.

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Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.

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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.

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Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

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Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.

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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

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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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At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

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A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart.

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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

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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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Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word.

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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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For avarice begins where poverty ends.

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