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Honore De Balzac Inspirational Quotes (390)

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It is no sin to be tempted the wickedness lies in being overcome.
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How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow.
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True love rules especially through memory.
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Necessity is the spur of genius.
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When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.
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For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?
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Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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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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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and men smile.
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Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul like that frightful acid which penetrates crystal.
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Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
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When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.
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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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Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.
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