Honoré de Balzac quotes - page 3

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought. (Honoré de Balzac)
A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears. View quote
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Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. View quote
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine. View quote
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman. View quote
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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. View quote
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When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa. View quote
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For avarice begins where poverty ends. View quote
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A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity. View quote
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I am a galley slave to pen and ink. View quote
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All human power is a compound of time and patience. (Honoré de Balzac)
Glory is the sun of the dead. View quote
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I prefer thought to action, an idea to an event, reflection to activity. View quote
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Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance. View quote
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I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing. View quote
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We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner side of human nature. This inner side is God's; the outer side belongs to men. View quote
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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. View quote
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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt. View quote
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Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him. View quote
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself. View quote
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. (Honoré de Balzac)
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one. View quote
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are. View quote
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Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws; can you name one to which no fact makes an exception? View quote
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A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion. View quote
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Honoré de Balzac

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Occupation: French Novelist
Born: May 20, 1799
Died: August 18, 1850
Quotes count: 253
Wikipedia: Honoré de Balzac

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