Honore De Balzac Quotes, Love Quotes

Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves.

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Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.

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Passion is born deaf and dumb.

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All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow.

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Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.

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Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense.

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We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose.

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Like evil, sublimity is also contagious.

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Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.

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A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.

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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

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

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Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.

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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

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The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.

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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

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Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.

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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

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Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.

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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

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