Honoré de Balzac quotes - page 6

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. (Honoré de Balzac)
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. View quote
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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society. View quote
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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. View quote
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To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect. View quote
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Modesty is the conscience of the body. View quote
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The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris. View quote
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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love. (Honoré de Balzac)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Love is a game in which one always cheats. View quote
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. View quote
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Finance, like time, devours its own children. View quote
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If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible. View quote
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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. View quote
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If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life. View quote
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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists. View quote
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Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin. (Honoré de Balzac)
Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul. View quote
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Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God. View quote
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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. View quote
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If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving to that word its exact significance. View quote
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