Honore de Balzac

Honore de Balzac: The heart of...

Honore de Balzac: The heart of...

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find...

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Honore de Balzac: Hatred is the...

Honore de Balzac: Hatred is the...

Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base...

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Honore de Balzac: It is as...

Honore de Balzac: It is as...

It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.

Source: In Webster's...

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Honore de Balzac: We exaggerate misfortune...

Honore de Balzac: We exaggerate misfortune...

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we...

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Honore de Balzac: I do not...

Honore de Balzac: I do not...

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Honore de Balzac: Equality may perhaps...

Honore de Balzac: Equality may perhaps...

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

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Honore de Balzac: Most people of...

Honore de Balzac: Most people of...

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

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Honore de Balzac: Necessity is the...

Honore de Balzac: Necessity is the...

Necessity is the spur of genius.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....

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Honore de Balzac: When women love...

Honore de Balzac: When women love...

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for...

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Honore de Balzac: Nature makes only...

Honore de Balzac: Nature makes only...

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

Source: In The...

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Honore de Balzac: No man should...

Honore de Balzac: No man should...

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

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Honore de Balzac: Nothing is a...

Honore de Balzac: Nothing is a...

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with...

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Honore de Balzac: The motto of...

Honore de Balzac: The motto of...

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

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Honore de Balzac: The majority of...

Honore de Balzac: The majority of...

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutang trying to play the violin.

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Honore de Balzac: To kill a...

Honore de Balzac: To kill a...

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine...

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Honore de Balzac: I am laughing...

Honore de Balzac: I am laughing...

I am laughing to think what risks you take to try to find money in a desk by night where the legal owner can never...

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Honore de Balzac: There is no...

Honore de Balzac: There is no...

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

Source: La Muse...

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Honore de Balzac: Manners are the...

Honore de Balzac: Manners are the...

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Source: Quoted in: Andr? Gide, Journals 1889...

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Honore de Balzac: Physically, a man...

Honore de Balzac: Physically, a man...

Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.

Source:...

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Honore de Balzac: To promote laughter...

Honore de Balzac: To promote laughter...

To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

Source: In...

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