Honore De Balzac Quotes

Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will.

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As a rule, only the poor are generous.

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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

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Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.

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A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.

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Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.

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Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune.

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To speak of love is to make love.

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Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws; can you name one to which no fact makes an exception?

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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance

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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.

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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.

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Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.

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Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?

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Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves.

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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.

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Six weeks with a fever is an eternity.

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Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors.

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There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or the desolation of ruins. Within these houses there is, perhaps, the silence of the cloister, the barrenness of moors, the skeleton of ruins; life and movement are so stagnant there that a stranger might think them uninhabited, were it not that he encounters suddenly the pale, cold glance of a motionless person, whose half-monastic face peers beyond the window-casing at the sound of an unaccustomed step.

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The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.

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