Honoré de Balzac Quotes

• The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.

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

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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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• Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.

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• Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

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

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• The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.

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• Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

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  True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

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• When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

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• What is art? Nature concentrated.

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• Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn’t, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

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• There is something great and terrible about suicide.

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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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• The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

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• The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

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• Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

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• Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

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

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

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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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