Honore de Balzac Quotes - Page 2

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• In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

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  Jewels, Literature, Pearls

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• To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.

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  Inspirational, Men, Law

  "New Outlook, Volume 58". Book edited by Alfred Emanuel Smith, Outlook Publishing Company, Inc. (p. 272), 1898.

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• The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.

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  Giving, Deals

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• Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

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  Strong, Creative, Secret

  Honoré de Balzac (2007). “Cesar Birotteau and Gaudissart the Great”, p.317, Wildside Press LLC

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• Life is simply what out feelings do to us.

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  Feelings, Life Is

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• The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.

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  Inferiority, Helping, Modesty

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.202, The Floating Press

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• I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.

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  Believe, I Believe, I Believe In

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• Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

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  Journey, Poetry, Painful

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• Reading brings us unknown friends

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  Book, Reading

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “The Elixir of Life”, p.6, The Floating Press

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• A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.

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  Husband, Found Happiness, Wife

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• Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.

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  Fortune

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• Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.

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  Law, Bigs

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• We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.

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  Solitude, Moral, Resources

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• All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.

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  Energy, Illusion, Periods

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• No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.

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  Men, Giving, Wife

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life”, p.487, The Floating Press

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• Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

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  Liberty, Giants, Libertarian

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• Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.

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  Men, Sheep, Iron

  Honore de Balzac (2010). “Cousin Bette”, p.293, The Floating Press

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• The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

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  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.

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  Heart, Wealth, Treasury

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Father Goriot”, p.75, Library of Alexandria

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• The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.

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  Letting Go, Husband, Lying

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• A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

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  Naked, Skirts, Nudity

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• Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

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  Poverty, Cease, Avarice

  Honore de Balzac (2009). “Lost Illusions”, p.16, The Floating Press

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• Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

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  Love, Wine, Tea

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• A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

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  Love, Men, Sea

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• There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.

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  Temptation, Cures

  Honore de Balzac (2006). “Le Pere Goriot: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.217, ReadHowYouWant.com

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