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Famous Honore de Balzac Quotes
“When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.”
“The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them.”
“By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate.”
“People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.”
“Our souls possess the unknown power of extending as well as contracting space.”
“Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.”
“Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently.”
“Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.”
“An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.”
“A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.”
“A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.”
“Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.”
“A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.”