Honore de Balzac Quotes - Page 17

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• On the moral plane, true friends enjoy the same protection as the sense of smell confers upon dogs. They scent the sorrow of their friends, they divine its causes, and they clasp it to their minds and hearts.

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  Friends, Dog, True Friend

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• The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

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  Running, Men, Literature

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.110, The Floating Press

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• Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you have read this story of great misfortunes, you will no doubt dine well, blaming the author for your own insensitivity, accusing him of wild exaggeration and flights of fancy. But rest assured: this tragedy is not a fiction. All is true.

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  Book, Hands, Doubt

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• Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.

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  Evil, Cures, Quacks

  Honore de Balzac “A Distinguished Provincial at Paris”, Library of Alexandria

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• The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.

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  Karma, Past, Secret

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Seraphita: Works of Balzac”, p.101, 谷月社

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• During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.

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  Simplicity, Storm, Captains

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• A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.

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  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Wife

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• Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.

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  Twelve, Widows, Handsome

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• Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory.

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  Memories, Mind, Peculiar

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• What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

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  Children, Two, Fruit

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac”, p.70, 谷月社

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• Lovers have a way of using this word "nothing" which implies exactly the opposite.

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  Opposites, Literature, Way

  "A Daughter of Eve". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1839.

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• God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven.

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  Player, Men, Heaven

  "Socrate Chrétien" as quoted in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 911-917), 1922.

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• In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.

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  Horse, Fall, Men

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “The Atheist's Mass”, p.18, The Floating Press

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• We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing.

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  Cost, Care, Longing

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• Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

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  Marriage, Fun, Husband

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• In all lands, sailors form a race apart. They profess a congenital contempt for landlubbers. As for the tradesman, he understands nothing of sailors nor cares a fig about them. He is content to rob them if he can.

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  Race, Land, Care

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• Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.

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  Couple, Husband, Wife

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• Love is the most melodious of all harmonies.

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  Love, Love Is, Harmony

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life”, p.82, The Floating Press

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• Sects differ more in name than tenets.

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  Names, Religion, Sects

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• Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.

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  Women, Virtue, Defects

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• Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.

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  Power, Doe, Force

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life”, p.89, The Floating Press

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• It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

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  Men, Race, Touching

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.108, The Floating Press

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• If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

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  Heart, Way, Affection

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• It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.

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  People, Want, Affair

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• Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?

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  Heart, Skulls, Sight

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