Honore de Balzac Quotes - Page 12

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• A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart.

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  Heart, Pride, Men

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• Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints.

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  Self, Feelings, Saint

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• Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a punch on the nose! And what a style he has!

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  Writing, Style, Thieves

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• Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.

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  Mean, Twelve, Crowns

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• At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.

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  Promise, Fifteen, Talent

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• Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves!

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  Women, Order, Realizing

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• Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.

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  Ideas, Justice, Brain

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• Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime admiring it and discovering new and changing phenomena that delight them. So it is with love.

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  Love, Sea, Soul

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• In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.

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  Beauty, World, Figures

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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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  Demand, Firsts, Should

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “A Woman at Thirty”, p.122, The Floating Press

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• [Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it is in ourselves, an interpreter for the communication of ideas and sensations, an exhaustless source of poetic inspiration. Every figure is a world in itself, a portrait of which the original appeared in a sublime vision, in a flood of light, pointed to by an inward voice, laid bare by a divine finger which showed what the sources of expression had been in the whole past life of the subject.

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  Inspiration, Communication, Past

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• Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.

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  Liberty, Trouble, Despotism

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• What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.

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  May, Fantasy, Dusk

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• The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom in life may perhaps consist in asking ourselves on all occasions: Why?

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  Keys, Discovery, Asking

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• Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

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  Judging, Stifling, Conscience

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.149, The Floating Press

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• What patient can trust the knowledge of a physician without reputation or furniture, in a period when publicity is all-powerful and when the government gilds the lamp posts on the Place de la Concorde in order to dazzle the poor?

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  Powerful, Government, Order

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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.

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  Weed, Marijuana, Degrees

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• Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.

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  Two Sides, Facts, Spirituality

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• It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.

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  Dream, Book, Writing

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• But woman brings disorder into society through passion.

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  Passion, Disorder

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• Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!

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  Ideas, Criticism, Genius

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• There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.

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  Envy, Mediocrity, Pity

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• Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.

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  Paris, Doe, Good French

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• The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences which the spirit alone remembers, for Matter has no memory for spiritual things.

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  Karma, Spiritual, Memories

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Seraphita: Works of Balzac”, p.101, 谷月社

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• The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.

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  Marriage, Husband, Thinking

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