Honore de Balzac Quotes - Page 23

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• A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.

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  Moving, Knowledge, Men

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• Alas, two men are often necessary to provide a woman with a perfect lover, just as in literature a writer composes a type only by employing the singularities of several similar characters.

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  Character, Men, Two

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• Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.

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  Love, Work, Men

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• From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.

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  Stitches, Thread, Needlework

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• Glory is the sunshine of the dead

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  Sunshine, Glory

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• Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats

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  Wine, Cat, Oil

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• How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene. 'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to go there in my own carriage, have my own box, and come back in comfort. All or nothing, that's my motto.' 'And a very good one,' said Madame Vauquer.

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  Half, Want, Comfort

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• Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul like that frightful acid which penetrates crystal.

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  Soul, Sorrow, Bed

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• At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

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  Beauty, Promise, Literature

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

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• The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.

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  Death, Science, Actors

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• To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.

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  Marriage, Mother, Country

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• In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.

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  Horse, Knowledge, Medicine

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• The pleasures of love proceed successively from a distich to a quatrain, from a quatrain to a sonnet, from a sonnet to a ballad, from a ballad to an ode, from an ode to a cantata, and from a cantata to a dithyramb. A husband who begins with the dithyramb is a fool.

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  Love, Husband, Odes

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• To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.

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  Drunk, Height, Salesman

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• Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.

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  Simplicity, Inspire, Disrespect

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• The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true

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  Spring, Mistake, Errors

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• A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be to mention his mistress, if she is beautiful, to his wife.

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  Beautiful, Husband, Mistake

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• Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis.

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  Society, Genesis, Indulgence

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• Thinking is seeing.... Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up from the effect to the cause; or, in a wider sense, all poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

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  Art, Science, Thoughtful

  Honore De Balzac (2011). “Louis Lambert”, p.36, The Floating Press

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• Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks, how he walks, if he has ever walked, if he could walk better, what he achieves in walking .. questions that are tied to all the philosophical, psychological, and political systems which preoccupy the world.

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  Philosophical, Journey, Men

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• The secret of the nobility and beauty of great ladies lies in the art with which they can shed their veils. In such situations, they become like ancient statues. If they kept the merest scarf on, they would be lewd. Your bourgeois woman will always try to cover her nakedness.

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  Art, Lying, Secret

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• Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an alliance with virtue, that a woman never shows to full advantage except as a mother. Then alone can her character expand in the fulfillment of all life's duties and the enjoyment of all its pleasures.

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  Mother, Children, Character

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.186, The Floating Press

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• A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.

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  Marriage, Vexation, Virtue

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• In the silence of their studios, busied for days at a time with works which leave the mind relatively free, painters become like women; their thoughts can revolve around the minor facts of life and penetrate their hidden meaning.

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  Silence, Mind, Facts

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• Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

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  Men, Stupidity, Feelings

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