Honore de Balzac Quotes - Page 25

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• Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.

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  Girl, Mind, Suffering

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• A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.

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  Beautiful, Book, Victory

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• In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.

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  Painting, Deals, Huge

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• Nothing about me surprises me.

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  Surprise, Surprise Me

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• There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at the touch of consoling words, that would reveal the depths of our pain.

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  Sympathy, Pain, Depth

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• Your women of fashion ceases to be a woman. She is neither mother, nor wife, nor lover. She is, medically speaking, sex on the brain.

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  Mother, Fashion, Sex

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• Beaucoup d'hommes ont un orgueil qui les pousse a' cacher leurs combats et a' ne se montrer que victorieux. Many men have pride that causes them to hide their combats and to only show themselves victorious.

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  Pride, Men, Causes

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• For businessmen, the world is a bale of banknotes in circulation; for most young men, it is a woman; for some women, it is a man; and for others it may be a salon, a coterie, a part of town or a whole city.

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  Men, Cities, World

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• Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.

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  Humility, Anti Bullying, Suffering

  Honore de Balzac, Pierre F. Limouzy (1999). “CliffsNotes on Balzac's Pere Goriot”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.

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  Men, Despair, Sauntering

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• From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.

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  Stitches, Thread, Needlework

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• We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.

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  Home, Light, Back Home

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• Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy.

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  Secret, Unhappy, Links

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• The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.

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  Death, Science, Actors

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• When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has a love affair, she is obliged to hoodwink her uncle.

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  Uncles, Niece, Palaces

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• Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats

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  Wine, Cat, Oil

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• No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.

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  Eye, Frozen, Made

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• Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.

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  Heart, Charity, Virtue

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• And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

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  People, Drink, Pleasure

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• The pleasures of love proceed successively from a distich to a quatrain, from a quatrain to a sonnet, from a sonnet to a ballad, from a ballad to an ode, from an ode to a cantata, and from a cantata to a dithyramb. A husband who begins with the dithyramb is a fool.

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  Love, Husband, Odes

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• The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness.

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  Happiness, Heart, Men

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• When an intelligent man reaches the point of inviting self-explanation and offers surrendering the key to his heart, he is assuredly riding a drunken horse.

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  Horse, Heart, Intelligent

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• When one of those skirt-bearing animals has set herself up above all by permitting herself to be deified, no power on earth can be as proud as she.

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  Pride, Animal, Earth

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• For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.

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  Dark, Light, People

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• When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.

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  Men, Self, Doe

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