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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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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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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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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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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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
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