Tag: Honore de Balzac
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At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.
Honore de Balzac
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
Honore de Balzac
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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.
Honore de Balzac
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Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.
Honore de Balzac
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What is art? Nature concentrated.
Honore de Balzac
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Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
Honore de Balzac
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
Honore de Balzac
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Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
Honore de Balzac
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Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
Honore de Balzac
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
Honore de Balzac