Honore de Balzac
Novelist
1799-05-20
Quotes by Honore de Balzac
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
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There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
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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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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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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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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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Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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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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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
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Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.
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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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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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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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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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There is something great and terrible about suicide.
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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
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