Honore de Balzac Quotes - Page 11

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• Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

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  Gratitude, Heart, Men

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• It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.

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  Mother, Strong, Exercise

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• Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.

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  Men, Aversion, Ends

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• As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.

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  Coffee, Struggle, Moving

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• Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

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  Mother, Passion, Vices

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• The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.

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  Literature, Virtuous Woman, Virtuous

  "The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou".

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• Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.

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  Feelings, Natural, Natural Feelings

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• To have fame follow us is well, but it is not a desirable avant-courier.

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  Fame, Wells, Desirable

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• The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.

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  Happiness, Revenge, World

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• In a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a woman.

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  Mother, Husband, Father

  "Analytical Studies".

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• Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.

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  Kindness, Rocks, Hands

  "A Daughter of Eve". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1839.

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• A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

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  Family, Happiness, Mothers Day

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.185, The Floating Press

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• Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

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  Daughter, Children, Ambition

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• Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.

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  Women, Angel, Suffering

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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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  Voice, Echoes, Faithful

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• No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.

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  Husband, Wife, Lovers

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• A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

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  Wedding, Flower, Wife

  "Honorine". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1845.

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• No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.

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  Society, Pity, Victim

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• Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.

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  Loss, Men, Choices

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• Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently.

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  Stupid, People, Heaven

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• Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.

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  Failure, Remembrance, Age

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• The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.

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  Love, Tyranny

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• A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.

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  Girl, School, May

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• Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws; can you name one to which no fact makes an exception?

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  Lying, Law, Names

  "Seraphita". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1834.

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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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  Writing, Color, Political

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