Honore De Balzac Quotes, Life Quotes, Mind Quotes

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

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The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom in life may perhaps consist in asking ourselves on all occasions: Why?

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Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.

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A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her lover. This is all the more true when that woman is young, pretty, and so decollete as to emerge from the neck of her gown in the costume of Eve.

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When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the passionate woman with disgust.

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During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.

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A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.

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Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis.

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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

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Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.

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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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The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred

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When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army

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In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.

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Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time.

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Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

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The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance, but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.

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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.

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By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate.

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Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps.

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