Honore de Balzac Quotes - Page 11

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• Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!

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  Ideas, Criticism, Genius

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• The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom in life may perhaps consist in asking ourselves on all occasions: Why?

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  Keys, Discovery, Asking

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• There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.

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  Envy, Mediocrity, Pity

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• Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtue.

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  Ideas, Paris, Pet

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.117, The Floating Press

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• Passion is born deaf and dumb.

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  Passion, Dumb, Deaf

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• Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.

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  Suicide, Moral, Dressings

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• The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.

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  Gymnastics, Mind, Doe

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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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• At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.

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  Promise, Fifteen, Talent

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• What patient can trust the knowledge of a physician without reputation or furniture, in a period when publicity is all-powerful and when the government gilds the lamp posts on the Place de la Concorde in order to dazzle the poor?

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  Powerful, Government, Order

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• If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

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  Art, Eye, Hands

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• Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn.

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  Cat, Blood, Maids

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• Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

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  Beauty, Power, Government

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• The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

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  Loss, Secret, Crime

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Father Goriot”, p.108, Library of Alexandria

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• The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.

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  Women, Mean, Liberty

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “A Woman at Thirty”, p.121, The Floating Press

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• Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.

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  Weed, Marijuana, Degrees

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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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  Writing, Color, Political

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• A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.

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  Atheist, Atheism

  "Le catéchisme social" by Honore de Balzac, Paris: La Renaissance du Livre, (p. 137), 1933.

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• When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

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  Law, Vices, Literature

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.56, The Floating Press

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• Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.

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  Feelings, Ignorant, Pieces

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• The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance, but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.

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  Hate, Men, Hatred

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• There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.

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  Women, Fall, Heart

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• All happiness depends on courage and work.

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  Life, Happiness, Courage

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• Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.

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  Love, Men, Rivals

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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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  Exaggeration Is, Literature, Bad Grades

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