Honore de Balzac Quotes - Page 5

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• First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

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  Funny Love, First Love, Love Is

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• Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.

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  Love, Art, Simple

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• Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation.

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  Love Is, Cost, Devastation

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• People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

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  People, Unhappiness, Unfortunate

  "Modeste Mignon". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1844.

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• Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

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  Marriage, Fighting, Monsters

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• Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.

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  Coffee, Espresso, People

  "Daily Rituals" by Mason Currey, www.slate.com. April 19, 2013.

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• Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!

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  Men, Trying, Want

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• Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

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  Novelty, Deceptive, Delightful

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• When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.

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  Husband, Betrayal, Want

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• I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.

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  Love, Romantic, Thinking Of You

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• He who best knows the world will love it least.

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  World, Knows

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• No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.

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  Love, Yield, Natural

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• Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.

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  Love, Earth, Sun

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• True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!

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  Love, Money, Difficult

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• Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.

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  Heart, Climbing, Hatred

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• The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

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  Husband, Men, Lovers

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.58, The Floating Press

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• To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.

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  Suffering, Devotion, Feels

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• Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

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  Leadership, Sports, Power

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• Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

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  Jealousy, Fear, Heart

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• One hour of love has a whole life in it.

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  Hours, Whole Life, One Hour

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.217, The Floating Press

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• A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage.

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  Teacher, Looks, Lessons

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• Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.'

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  Looks, Sometimes, Moments

  Honore de Balzac (1899). “A Passion in the Desert”, p.17, Library of Alexandria

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• A mother who is really a mother is never free.

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  Mothers Day, Parenting, Parenthood

  "Letters of Two Brides". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1842.

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• The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

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  Spiritual, Flower, Intuition

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• Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.

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  Events, Outcomes, Individual

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