Honore de Balzac Quotes - Page 6

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

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  Marriage, Fighting, Monsters

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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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• 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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• Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.

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  Jealousy, Heart, Envy

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

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  People, Generosity, Twenties

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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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• Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.

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  Love, Two, Sorrow

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• Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

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  Silence, Feelings, Wells

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.300, The Floating Press

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• Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.

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  Heart, Doe, Gloves

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• Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

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  Joy, Sorrow, Excess

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.259, The Floating Press

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• How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?

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  Yield, Envy, Vices

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• For avarice begins where poverty ends.

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  Avarice Greed, Poverty, Ends

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• The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can.

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  Safe, Boxes, Deposits

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• The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

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  Men, Originality, Talent

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• Only when one has learned to acknowledge that wiser minds have made better words to come out of our mouths may we truly, then, begin to speak them.

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  Mind, Mouths, May

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• The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.

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  Real, Splendor

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Seraphita: Works of Balzac”, p.66, 谷月社

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