Honoré de Balzac Quotes

• A married woman is a slave whom one must put on a throne.

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• Marriage should always combat the monster that devours everything: habit.

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• A man can never elevate his mistress to his rank, but a woman can always place her lover as high as she.

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• There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower.

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• Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.

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• Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.

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• All happiness depends on courage and work.

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• If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

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• A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.

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• Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.

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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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• 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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• Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

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• When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

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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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• When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

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• What is art? Nature concentrated.

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

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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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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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