Honore De Balzac Quotes, Marriage Quotes, Party Quotes

Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.

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Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy.

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Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.

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Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.

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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

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Thinking is seeing.... Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up from the effect to the cause; or, in a wider sense, all poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

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A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.

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Conventions are often more cruel than the law.

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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

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What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.

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Religious ecstasy is a madness of thought freed of its bodily bonds, whereas in the ecstasy of love, the forces of twin natures unite, blend and embrace one another.

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Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

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Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses.

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Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a punch on the nose! And what a style he has!

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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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Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues.

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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.

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We are scarcely apt to berate the source of enjoyment.

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Constancy will always be the genius of love, the indication of that strength which constitutes the poet. A man should possess all women in his wife, like those squalid poetasters of the seventeenth century who made fair Irises and dazzling Chloes of their lowly Manons.

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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

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