Honore de Balzac Quotes - Page 15

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• We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

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  Wretched

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• Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.

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  Two, Stupidity, Assuming

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• When in Turkey, do as the turkeys do.

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  Turkeys

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• Finance, like time, devours its own children.

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  Time, Money, Children

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “The Firm of Nucingen”, p.19, The Floating Press

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• Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.

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  Two Sides, Facts, Spirituality

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• The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.

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  Marriage, Husband, Thinking

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• Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints.

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  Self, Feelings, Saint

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• Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves!

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  Women, Order, Realizing

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• One exits with one's husband -- one lives with one's lover.

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  Husband, Exit, Lovers

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• To have fame follow us is well, but it is not a desirable avant-courier.

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  Fame, Wells, Desirable

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• Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.

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  Believe, World, Said

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Old Goriot: Classic French Literature”, p.216, 谷月社

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• It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.

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  Mother, Strong, Exercise

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• Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.

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  Soul, Virtue, Lofty

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• White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion and of the lamb, Prayer! Prayer will give you the key of heaven! Bold and pure as innocence, strong, like all that is single and simple, this glorious, invincible Queen rests, nevertheless, on the material world; she takes possession of it; like the sun, she clasps it in a circle of light.

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  Strong, Queens, Prayer

  "Seraphita". Book by Honoré de Balzac. Chapter 6: "The Road to Heaven", 1834.

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• But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

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  Positive, Cutting, Sentimental

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac”, p.87, 谷月社

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• The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

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  Art, Motherhood, Self

  "Letters of Two Brides". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1841-1842.

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• By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and their passions.

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  Women, Believe, Passion

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• For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth.

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  Funny, Journalism, Journalist

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• The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.

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  Believe, Men, Europe

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• Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes.

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  Dream, Home, Gentleman

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• Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves.

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  Energy, Charity

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• When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.

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  People, Mind, Black

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• The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the clothes, the words and the dwelling of a prince, a banker, an artist, a bourgeois, a priest and a pauper, are wholly dissimilar and change at the will of civilizations.

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  Eye, Artist, Animal

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• Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?

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  Passion, Law, Forgiving

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• Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps.

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  White, Doubt, Steps

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