Honore de Balzac Quotes - Page 8

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• Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.

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  Men, Abandoned, Refuse

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• Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.

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  Paris, Pretty Woman, Inexplicable

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• Necessity is often the spur to genius.

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  Inspirational, Spurs, Genius

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• The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

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  Love, Passion, Literature

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• Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word.

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  Lovers, Break, Scoundrels

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• For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

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  Passion, Giving, Village Idiots

  "'Les Célibataires' ('A Bachelor's Establishment')". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1842.

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• Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.

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  Memories, Desire, Enjoyed

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• What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

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  Mean, Feelings, Charm

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• Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.

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  Marriage, Fighting, Monsters

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• One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.

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  Life, Mind, Habit

  Honore de Balzac (1950). “Pere Goriot and Eugenie Grandet”

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• The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.

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  Believe, Men, Europe

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• Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.

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  Past, Men, Sorrow

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• A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

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  Doe, Martyr, Great Writers

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• With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man he has been unable to swindle.

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  Grateful, Men, Secret

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• In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.

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  Love, Growing, Firsts

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• For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.

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  Men, Feet, Sick

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• Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.

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  Flower, Heart, Intuition

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac”, p.88, 谷月社

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• Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?

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  Crush, Shy, Persons

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• Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.

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  Moving, Men, Wish

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• Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.

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  Women, Men

  The Physiology of Marriage

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• Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

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  Passion, Men, Ideas

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• How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

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  Quality, Vices, Failing

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• Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

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  Children, Literature, Sovereign

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.172, The Floating Press

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• The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.

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  Soul, Literature, Habit

  "The Vicar of Tours". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1832.

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• Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

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  Funny, Nature, Stupid

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