Honore De Balzac Quotes, Ideas Quotes, Action Quotes

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

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Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshnessof a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty.

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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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To man, faith; to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two?

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Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.

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My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts.

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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.

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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.

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Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

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A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

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Un mari, comme un gouvernement, ne doit jamais avouer de faute. A husband, like a government, never needs to admit a fault.

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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.

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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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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.

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Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune.

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Modesty is the conscience of the body.

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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man's life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool's notion of history.

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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.

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If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.

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Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.

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