Tag: Honore de Balzac
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Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
Honore de Balzac
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Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.
Honore de Balzac
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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.
Honore de Balzac
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Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser’s gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys.
Honore de Balzac
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
Honore de Balzac
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
Honore de Balzac
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
Honore de Balzac
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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
Honore de Balzac
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The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.
Honore de Balzac
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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.
Honore de Balzac