Honore de Balzac Quotes - Page 2

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• An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

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  Being Yourself, Work, Love Yourself

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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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• There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

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  Inspirational, Willpower, Talent

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• As a rule, only the poor are generous.

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  Generosity, Poor, Generous

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• Life is simply what out feelings do to us.

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  Feelings, Life Is

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• Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

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  Equality, Power, Literature

  "La Duchesse de Langeais". Essay by Honore de Balzac (1834), published in "Oeuvres completes de H. de Balzac" ("Complete works of Balzac") published by A. Houssiaux (Part II, pp. 111-235), translated by Ellen Marriage, 1855.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in
  the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman
  dancing.

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  Beautiful, Horse, Sight

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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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• Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

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  Liberty, Giants, Libertarian

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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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• 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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• The more you judge, the less you love.

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  Judging, Judgement, Criticism

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• The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.

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  Kings, Home, Feelings

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

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  Love, Wine, Tea

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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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• 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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