Honoré de Balzac Quotes

• Modesty is the conscience of the body.

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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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• It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

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• Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

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• Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

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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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• Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

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• Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

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• Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

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• An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.

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• All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

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• A mother’s life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

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• A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.

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• Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

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• A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

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• It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

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• A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

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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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