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Honore De Balzac Inspirational Quotes (390)

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Ah! the soft starlight of virgin eyes.
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Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
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We love because we love.
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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Our heart is a treasury if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart.
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The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can.
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Now literary success can only be won in solitude by persevering labor.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.
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There is nothing original all is reflected light.
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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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Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.
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Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.
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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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God is the poet men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Reading brings us unknown friends
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Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.
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During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.
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The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.
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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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