Honore de Balzac Quotes
105 Honore de Balzac quotes:
"Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream."
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"A woman must be a genius to create a good husband."
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"If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye."
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"To our shame a woman is never so much attached to us as when we suffer"
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"Wit needs leisure, and certain inequalities of position"
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"Love is the poetry of the senses."
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"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."
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"A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way."
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"First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time."
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"There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power."
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"Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love."
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"Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation."
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"What is art? Nature concentrated."
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"The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman."
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"The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one."
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"It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time."
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"What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?"
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"The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital."
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"In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls."
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"The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband."
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