Honore De Balzac Quotes, Light Quotes

Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.

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Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.

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Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.

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Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you have read this story of great misfortunes, you will no doubt dine well, blaming the author for your own insensitivity, accusing him of wild exaggeration and flights of fancy. But rest assured: this tragedy is not a fiction. All is true.

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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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A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.

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Necessity is the spur of genius.

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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

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Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion.

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It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.

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Ah! the soft starlight of virgin eyes.

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A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry is endless, she shrouds herself in veil after veil, she satisfies every demand of man's vanity, the novice responds but to one.

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As a rule, only the poor are generous.

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Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently.

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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!

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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

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Beaucoup d'hommes ont un orgueil qui les pousse a' cacher leurs combats et a' ne se montrer que victorieux. Many men have pride that causes them to hide their combats and to only show themselves victorious.

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A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.

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No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.

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