Honore de Balzac Quotes - Page 18

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• I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

  Honore de Balzac

  Writing, Ink, Slave

  Letter to Zulma Carraud, translated by C. Lamb Kenney, July 2, 1832.

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• Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.

  Honore de Balzac

  Ignorance, Men, May

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• Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.

  Honore de Balzac

  Desire, Doe, Loyal

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• Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

  Honore de Balzac

  Marriage, Law, Maintenance

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• Conventions are often more cruel than the law.

  Honore de Balzac

  Law, Conventions

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• All we are is in the soul.

  Honore de Balzac

  Soul

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• Necessity is the spur of genius.

  Honore de Balzac

  Spurs, Genius

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• There is something great and terrible about suicide.

  Honore de Balzac

  Suicide, Terrible

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.13, The Floating Press

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• Inspiration is the opportunity of genius.

  Honore de Balzac

  Inspiration, Opportunity, Genius

  Honore de Balzac (2010). “Cousin Bette”, p.334, The Floating Press

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• One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy.

  Honore de Balzac

  Flames, Two, Hypocrisy

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• France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same.

  Honore de Balzac

  Country, Government, France

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• Love is a game in which one always cheats.

  Honore de Balzac

  Cute Love, Cheating, Love Is

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• The man whom fate employs to awaken love in the heart of a young girl is often unaware of his work and therefore leaves it uncompleted.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Girl, Heart

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• Love which economizes is never true love.

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• Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

  Honore de Balzac

  Children, Loss, Her Beauty

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

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• Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.

  Honore de Balzac

  Law, May, Humans

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• We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing.

  Honore de Balzac

  Solitude, Answers, Pleasure

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• But also remember: if you have any genuine feelings, hide them like treasure; never let anyone so much as suspect them, or you're lost. Instead of being the executioner, you'll be the victim. And if you ever fall in love, keep that absolutely secret! Never breathe a word until you're completely sure of the person to whom you open your heart. And to protect that love, even before you feel it, learn to despise the world.

  Honore de Balzac

  Falling In Love, Heart, Feelings

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• Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward really wicked people for the evil they refrain from committing.

  Honore de Balzac

  Kindness, Heart, Character

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• To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold.

  Honore de Balzac

  Money, Gold, Add

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• If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.

  Honore de Balzac

  Spring, Years, Enemy

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• According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on.

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  Men, Sheep, Sea

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• Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.

  Honore de Balzac

  Art, Lying, Real

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Old Goriot: Classic French Literature”, p.90, 谷月社

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• All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow.

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  Fate, Men, Joy

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• Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.

  Honore de Balzac

  Math, Numbers, Intellectual

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