Honoré de Balzac Quotes

• Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

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  Tags in Virtue, Perhaps

• Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.

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  Tags in Persons, Weed

• 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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  Topics in Age, Art, Honesty, Love, Truth

  Tags in Equality, Demonstrations, Violence

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

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  Tags in Ruin, Towns, Hard

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

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  Tags in Abstract, Exhausted, Thought

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

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  Tags in Relatives, Relationships, Inheritance, Killing

• Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser’s gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys.

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  Tags in Key, Enjoyment, Miser, Treasures, Thought, Care

• Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

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  Tags in Spend, Grow Rich, Rich, Fast

• There is something great and terrible about suicide.

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

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

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  Topics in Smile

  Tags in Bachelors, Women

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

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  Tags in Chivalry

• The more one judges, the less one loves.

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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

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

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  Tags in Husband

• The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

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  Tags in Friends, Acquaintance

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

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  Tags in Forgiveness

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

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• The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

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  Tags in Resistance, Passion, Men And Women

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

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  Tags in Tries, Paris, Ape

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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