Honore de Balzac Quotes - Page 9

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• One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

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  Love, Anniversary, Marriage

  Honore De Balzac (2005). “The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

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  Eye, Tongue, Mockery

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• Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

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  Selfishness, Courtesy, Veneer

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

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• Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.

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  Dupes, Emotion, Victim

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• Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enermous there's a real risk it could shatter them.

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  Beautiful, Strong, Powerful

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• When women love, they forgive everything...

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  Forgiveness, Forgiving

  "The Muse of the Department". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1843.

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• A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.

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  Pride, Men, May

  Honore de Balzac (1899). “The Muse of the Department”, p.141, Library of Alexandria

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• In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.

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  Love, Mistake, Men

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• Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

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  Happiness, Hypocrisy, Social

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• The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.

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  Badass, Bad Ass, Events

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• Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink...

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  Coffee, Moving, Fall

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• In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.

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  France, Injury, Remedy

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• Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.

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  Women, Wife, World

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• A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry is endless, she shrouds herself in veil after veil, she satisfies every demand of man's vanity, the novice responds but to one.

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  Girl, Women, Thinking

  Honore de Balzac (1897). “A Woman of Thirty”, p.172, Library of Alexandria

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• Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.

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  Money, Feelings, Age

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• Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

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  Girl, Suffering, Pleasure

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• We love because we love.

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  Love, Love Is

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “The Commission in Lunacy”, p.6, The Floating Press

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• Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.

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  Men, Raised, Estimation

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• As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.

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  Coffee, Struggle, Moving

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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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• Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.

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  Men, Aversion, Ends

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• Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

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  Daughter, Children, Ambition

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• The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.

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  Happiness, Revenge, World

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• Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

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  Gratitude, Heart, Men

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• Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

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  Mother, Passion, Vices

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