Honoré de Balzac Quotes

• Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

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• Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.

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• Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

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• Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

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• The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

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  Tags in Tries, Paris, Ape

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

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• To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

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• It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

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

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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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• Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

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

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• Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

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• For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

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  Tags in Idiots, Insight, Passion

• Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

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• Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

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• It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

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• Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

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• The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

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  Tags in Habitually, Equal, Caution, Cease

• A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

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Honoré de Balzac (137)

Birth:	20th May, 1799
Death:	18th August, 1850
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Novelist, Playwright

About

Honoré de Balzac was born in Tours, France. He was a French novelist and playwright. He wrote several novels include: Les Chouans, La Peau de chagrin, Adieu, La Vendetta, Colonel Chabert, Louis Lambert, Louis Lambert, Ferragus, Séraphîta, La Duchesse de Langeais, The Quest of the Absolute, Père Goriot, The Girl With the Golden Eyes, Le Lys Dans LA Vallee, Facino Cane, César Birotteau, La Rabouilleuse, Illusions perdues, Cousin Bette, Ursule Mirouët, Albert Savarus, Letters of Two Brides, Le Cousin Pons, Modeste Mignon, Honorine, and Le Cousin Pons. He wrote play, including Mercadet ou le faiseur.

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