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Famous Honore de Balzac Quotes
“No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.”
“Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.”
“How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?”
“There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.”
“Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.”
“The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.”
“A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.”
“Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.”
“To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.”
“Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.”
“Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.”
“Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.”
“Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.”
“In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women.”
“The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare.”