Honore De Balzac Quotes, Quality Quotes, Vices Quotes

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

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Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.

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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.

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Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?

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He's got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he's reading the blasted things.

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Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.

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He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.

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I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.

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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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By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and their passions.

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Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an alliance with virtue, that a woman never shows to full advantage except as a mother. Then alone can her character expand in the fulfillment of all life's duties and the enjoyment of all its pleasures.

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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.

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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

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In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.

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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.

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When women love, they forgive everything...

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Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.

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

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With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.

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