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Pity is woman's sweetest charm...

Pity is woman's sweetest charm.

Honore De Balzac 785 quotes

Resignation is a daily suicide...

Resignation is a daily suicide.

Honore De Balzac 785 quotes

By dint of making sacrifices, ...

By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.

Honore De Balzac 785 quotes

In all lands, sailors form a r...

In all lands, sailors form a race apart. They profess a congenital contempt for landlubbers. As for the tradesman, he understands nothing of sailors nor cares a fig about them. He is content to rob them if he can.

Honore De Balzac 785 quotes

No hawk swooping down upon his...

No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game from afar is comparable in speed to the celerity of a salesman when he gets wind a deal, to his skill in tripping up or forestalling a rival, and to the art with which he sniffs out and discovers a possible sale.

Honore De Balzac 785 quotes

When attempted self-destructio...

When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.

Honore De Balzac 785 quotes

When an intelligent man reache...

When an intelligent man reaches the point of inviting self-explanation and offers surrendering the key to his heart, he is assuredly riding a drunken horse.

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Self-interest is an ineffable ...

Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints.

Honore De Balzac 785 quotes

Self-love is as protective as ...

Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage.

Honore De Balzac 785 quotes

The wounds of self-love turn i...

The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them.

Honore De Balzac 785 quotes

By resorting to self-resignati...

By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate.

Honore De Balzac 785 quotes

Sensuality is the death of the...

Sensuality is the death of the soul.

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Who shall ever tell how much a...

Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?

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The best painters, as they pro...

The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.

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Once she has committed sin, th...

Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime.

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Life in clubs is no paltry sig...

Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes.

Honore De Balzac 785 quotes

According to man's environment...

According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on.

Honore De Balzac 785 quotes

No society is complete without...

No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.

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People who climb from one rung...

People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.

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Society proceeds like the ocea...

Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.

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