Honore de Balzac Quotes - Page 14

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• We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.

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  Success, Wish

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• Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights.

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  Love Is, Height, Way

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• It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of hope but grief looms start and stripped of all veils.

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  Beautiful, Grief, Ambition

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• One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a continuity of desire where Nature thought only of perpetuating the species; and, in fine, to have invented love.

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  Women, Desire, Female

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• The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.

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  Business, Political, Secret

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• When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.

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  Funny, Dog, House

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• Authentic love always assumes the mystery of modesty, even in its expression, because actions speak louder than words. Unlike a feigned love, it feels no need to set a conflagration.

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  Love, Expression, Actions Speak Louder Than Words

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• In a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a woman.

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  Mother, Husband, Father

  "Analytical Studies".

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• Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future.

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  Love, Passion, Past

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• I am not deep, but I am very wide.

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  Wide

  Letter to Clara Carrara-Spinelli Maffei, Oct. 1837

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• A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.

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  Marriage, Women, Cutting

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• Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.

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  Cutting, Men, Balls

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Father Goriot”, p.102, Library of Alexandria

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• Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

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  Jealousy, Stupid, Envy

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• To speak of love is to make love.

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  Love, Love Is, Making Love

  Honore De Balzac (2005). “The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou”, p.186, Cosimo, Inc.

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• True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit.

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  Love Is, Dupes, Flattery

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “Poor Relations: Cousin Betty and Cousin Pons”, p.200, The Floating Press

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• A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and amend; but a spy is always a spy, night and day, in bed, at table, as he walks abroad; his vileness pervades every moment of his life

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  Night, Mad, Spy

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “The Elixir of Life”, p.5, The Floating Press

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• She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her strength, her pride, and happiness are centered.

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  Heart, Pride, Wife

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.97, The Floating Press

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• It's not enough to be a good person. You also have to show it.

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  Good Person, Enough, Shows

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• Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.

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  Feelings, Natural, Natural Feelings

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• Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

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  Feelings, Natural, Midst

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• Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.

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  Two, Males, Female

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• The fashions we call English in Paris are French in London, and vice versa. Franco-British hostility vanishes when it comes to questions of words and clothing. God save the King is a tune composed by Lully for a chorus in a play by Racine.

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  Fashion, Kings, Play

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• We are scarcely apt to berate the source of enjoyment.

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  Source, Enjoyment

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• You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth.

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  Love, Heart, Teeth

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• Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion.

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  Men, Needs, Emotion

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