Honore De Balzac Quotes, Men Quotes, Yield Quotes

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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Nos beaux sentiments ne sont-ils pas les poe sies de la volonte ? Aren't our best feelings poetry of the will?

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Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

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It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of hope but grief looms start and stripped of all veils.

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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

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The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

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Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.

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In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.

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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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Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.

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God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven.

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There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.

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Love knows nothing of modesty.

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The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.

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All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

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This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fault for an excuse, which makes an outcry at the wound which it condones, is one of the most distinctive features of the journalist. This camaraderie (the word is a stroke of genius) corrodes the noblest minds; it eats into their pride like rust, kills the germ of great deeds, and lends a sanction to moral cowardice.

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Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.

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Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes.

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Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights.

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Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.

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