Honore de Balzac Quotes - Page 13

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• Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.

  Honore de Balzac

  Friendship, Thinking, Negative

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• Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

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  Pain, Men, Suffering

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac”, p.15, 谷月社

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• Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring a circle.

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  Circles, Problem, Reason

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• What is art? Nature concentrated.

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  Art, Nature, Literature

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• The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

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  Country, Paris, Trying

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• Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles.

  Honore de Balzac

  Like Love, Hatred, Trifles

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• Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and men smile.

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  Girl, Mother, Men

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• Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.

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  Atheism, Thanks, Century

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• Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.

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  Powerful, Sin, Repentance

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Seraphita: Works of Balzac”, p.59, 谷月社

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• A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.

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  Love, Coquetry, Virtuous

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• Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts.

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  Heart, Angel, Looks

  Honore De Balzac (1958). “Cousin Bette”

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• No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.

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  Husband, Wife, Lovers

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• Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.

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  Clouds, Veils, Shrouds

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• Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.

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  Men, Action, Providence

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• Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.

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  Men, Doe, Done

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• Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.

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  Faults, Repentance, Ends

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• Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?

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  Wish, Spirit, Force

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• Poles offer a mobility like that of the wind that blows over the immense plains and marches of Poland. Show a Pole a precipice, and he will leap headlong over it.

  Honore de Balzac

  Blow, Wind, Mobility

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• The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.

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  Jesus, Police, Enemy

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• There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.

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  Two, Kind, Poet

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• In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.

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  Jealousy, Men, Want Something

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• Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.

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  Failure, Remembrance, Age

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• At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives only for him, her thoughts are full of his future, he must have a great career, she bids him make it glorious; she can obey, entreat, command, humble herself, or rise in pride; times without number she brings comfort when a young girl can only make moan.

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  Love, Girl, Women

  "A Woman of Thirty" by Honore de Balzac, translated by Ellen Marriag, (Ch. III), 1842.

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• Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.

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  Women, Angel, Suffering

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• Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently.

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  Stupid, People, Heaven

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