Honore de Balzac Quotes - Page 27

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• A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.

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  Mother, Loss, Hands

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• No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.

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  Heart, Inferiority, Rivals

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• One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l'Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard.

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  Book, Men, July

  Honore de Balzac (1901). “Cousin Betty”, p.8, Library of Alexandria

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• Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.

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  Hatred, Giants, Journalism

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• A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.

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  Moving, Knowledge, Men

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• In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.

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  Horse, Knowledge, Medicine

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• Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine or of opium. The lucidity our ideas then achieve, and the delicacy of our overly exalted sensations, produce the strangest and most unexpected effects.

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  Powerful, Passion, Wine

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• No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game from afar is comparable in speed to the celerity of a salesman when he gets wind a deal, to his skill in tripping up or forestalling a rival, and to the art with which he sniffs out and discovers a possible sale.

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  Dog, Art, Wind

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• Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.

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  Two, Gowns, Balls

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• Like evil, sublimity is also contagious.

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  Evil, Contagious, Sublimity

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• How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow.

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  Mother, Children, Thoughtful

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• A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

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  Men, Vanity, Dupes

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• Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability.

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  Special, Riches, Gains

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• Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.

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  Thinking, Thoughtful, Intuition

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• Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.

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  Music, Two, Kind

  "Massimilla Doni" by Honore de Balzac, translated by Clara Bell and James Waring, 1839.

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• To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.

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  Marriage, Mother, Country

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• Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an alliance with virtue, that a woman never shows to full advantage except as a mother. Then alone can her character expand in the fulfillment of all life's duties and the enjoyment of all its pleasures.

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  Mother, Children, Character

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.186, The Floating Press

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• Now literary success can only be won in solitude by persevering labor.

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  Solitude, Labor

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