Honore de Balzac Quotes - Page 10

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• Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

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  Funny, Nature, Stupid

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• Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

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  Selfishness, Courtesy, Veneer

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.58, The Floating Press

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

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  Soul, Literature, Habit

  "The Vicar of Tours". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1832.

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• Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

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  Eye, Tongue, Mockery

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• Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.

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  Faults, Repentance, Ends

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• When women love, they forgive everything...

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  Forgiveness, Forgiving

  "The Muse of the Department". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1843.

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• The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.

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  Badass, Bad Ass, Events

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• Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink...

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  Coffee, Moving, Fall

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• In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.

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  Love, Mistake, Men

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• Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

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  Happiness, Hypocrisy, Social

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• Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enermous there's a real risk it could shatter them.

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  Beautiful, Strong, Powerful

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• A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.

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  Husband, Hate, Found Happiness

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• Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.

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  Believe, World, Said

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Old Goriot: Classic French Literature”, p.216, 谷月社

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• A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.

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  Pride, Men, May

  Honore de Balzac (1899). “The Muse of the Department”, p.141, Library of Alexandria

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• Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.

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  Women, Wife, World

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• Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.

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  Power, Doe, Force

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life”, p.89, The Floating Press

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• Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.

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  Money, Feelings, Age

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• Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

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  Girl, Suffering, Pleasure

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• In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.

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  France, Injury, Remedy

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• Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts.

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  Heart, Angel, Looks

  Honore De Balzac (1958). “Cousin Bette”

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• A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry is endless, she shrouds herself in veil after veil, she satisfies every demand of man's vanity, the novice responds but to one.

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  Girl, Women, Thinking

  Honore de Balzac (1897). “A Woman of Thirty”, p.172, Library of Alexandria

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• A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and amend; but a spy is always a spy, night and day, in bed, at table, as he walks abroad; his vileness pervades every moment of his life

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  Night, Mad, Spy

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “The Elixir of Life”, p.5, The Floating Press

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• We love because we love.

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  Love, Love Is

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “The Commission in Lunacy”, p.6, The Floating Press

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• Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion.

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  Men, Needs, Emotion

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• Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.

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  Men, Raised, Estimation

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