When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
HONORE DE BALZACHope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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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.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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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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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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