Honore de Balzac Quotes

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• It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

  Honore de Balzac

  Inspirational, Motivational, Helping Others

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• When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

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  Life, Giving, Doubt

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• Reading brings us unknown friends

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  Book, Reading

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “The Elixir of Life”, p.6, The Floating Press

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• Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.

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  Hate, Two, Hatred

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• How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!

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  Envy, Emotion, Insult

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• I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.

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  Believe, I Believe, I Believe In

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• Behind every fortune there is a crime.

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  Crime, Fortune, Behinds

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• The more one judges, the less one loves.

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  Love, Inspiring, Positivity

  Honore De Balzac (2005). “The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou”, p.90, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

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  Happiness, Sacrifice, Self Sacrifice

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Old Goriot: Classic French Literature”, p.109, 谷月社

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• Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.

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  Law, Bigs

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• There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.

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  Truth, Real, War

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• Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance

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  Ignorance, Moments, Moments Of Happiness

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• Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.

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  Memories, Forget, Capacity

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• All human power is a compound of time and patience.

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  Time, Power, Compounds

  Honore de Balzac (2009). “Eugenie Grandet”, p.141, The Floating Press

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• The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.

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  Giving, Deals

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• Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.

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  Things In Life, Choices, Hardest

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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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  Love, Sisterhood, Giving

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• Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

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  Equality, Power, Literature

  "La Duchesse de Langeais". Essay by Honore de Balzac (1834), published in "Oeuvres completes de H. de Balzac" ("Complete works of Balzac") published by A. Houssiaux (Part II, pp. 111-235), translated by Ellen Marriage, 1855.

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• The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.

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  Parent, Victory, Defeat

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• Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

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  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

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  Jewels, Literature, Pearls

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• Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.

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  Fire, Flames, Genius

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• Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

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  Goes On, Forget

  Honore de Balzac (2010). “Cousin Bette”, p.706, The Floating Press

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• Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.

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  Men, Sheep, Iron

  Honore de Balzac (2010). “Cousin Bette”, p.293, The Floating Press

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• As a rule, only the poor are generous.

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  Generosity, Poor, Generous

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