All Honore De Balzac Quotes
Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
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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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The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.
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The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
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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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A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
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Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.
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The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
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