Best Quotes by Honore de Balzac (Top 10)
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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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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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
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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 is a game in which one always cheats.
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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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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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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Modesty is the conscience of the body.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Finance, like time, devours its own children.
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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
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All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
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To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
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Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.'
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.
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Necessity is often the spur to genius.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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All happiness depends on courage and work.
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The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true
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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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What is art? Nature concentrated.
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In a husband there is only a man; in a married woman there is a man, a father, and mother, and a woman.
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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
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Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.
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Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
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