Honore de Balzac Quotes - Page 4

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• Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

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  Half, Virtue

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• The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.

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  Heart, Hatred, Here And There

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Father Goriot”, p.24, Library of Alexandria

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• The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.

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  Men, Illegal, Profit

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• Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

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  Men, Yield, Sound

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• Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance kills the happiest passion.

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  Drama, Passion, Gestures

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• White hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young.

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  Heart, Hair, White

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Lily of the Valley”, p.152, The Floating Press

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• Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.

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  Hate, Two, Hatred

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• Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.

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  Love, Gratitude, Love Is

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• The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

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  Women, Wife, Rooms

  Honore De Balzac (2005). “The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou”, p.60, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.

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  Struggle, Fate, Men

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• It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

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  Love, Men, Play

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• You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth.

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  Love, Heart, Teeth

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• No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

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  Funny, Marriage, Witty

  No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. The Physiology of Marriage Meditation V, Aphorism 28

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• Cruelty and fear shake hands together.

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  Fear, Hands, Together

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• True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

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  True Love, Love Is, What Is Love

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• Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.

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  Atheism, Thanks, Century

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• Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

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  Money, Riches, Wealth

  "At the Sign of the Cat and Racket". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1830.

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• Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

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  Art, Effort, Counterfeit

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• True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

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  Love, Life, Heart

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• Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.

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  Angel, Men, Compassion

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• The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.

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  Heart, Winning, Opportunity

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• Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Confidence

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• Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

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  Men, Despair, Literature

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• An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.

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  Pounds, Timidity

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• Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?

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  Wish, Spirit, Force

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