At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

Quote by Honore De Balzac

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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business...

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business...

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the...

There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the...

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect...

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect...

Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the...

Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the...

If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous...

If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous...

Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.

Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other...

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other...

Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it...

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it...

What is art? Nature concentrated.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate...

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate...

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.

Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather...

It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather...

It is not enough to be an upright man, we must be seen to be...

It is not enough to be an upright man, we must be seen to be...

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the...

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the...

When I am travelling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during...

When I am travelling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during...

The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the...

The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the...