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Honore De Balzac Inspirational Quotes (390)

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A woman in love has full intelligence of her power the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.
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Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles.
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Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps.
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A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.
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We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.
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With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man he has been unable to swindle.
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A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.
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There is something great and terrible about suicide.
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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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Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,-she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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For businessmen, the world is a bale of banknotes in circulation for most young men, it is a woman for some women, it is a man and for others it may be a salon, a coterie, a part of town or a whole city.
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Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?
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