Honore De Balzac Quotes, Friends Quotes, Dog Quotes

On the moral plane, true friends enjoy the same protection as the sense of smell confers upon dogs. They scent the sorrow of their friends, they divine its causes, and they clasp it to their minds and hearts.

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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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All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.

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Like evil, sublimity is also contagious.

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Reading brings us unknown friends

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It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.

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

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Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears.

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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.

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White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion and of the lamb, Prayer! Prayer will give you the key of heaven! Bold and pure as innocence, strong, like all that is single and simple, this glorious, invincible Queen rests, nevertheless, on the material world; she takes possession of it; like the sun, she clasps it in a circle of light.

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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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Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.

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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

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Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

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The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

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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 mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

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A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.

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Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

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