Honore de Balzac Quotes - Page 27

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• For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.

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  Dark, Light, People

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• To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

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  Exhausted, Abstract, Remains

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• Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.

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  Music, Two, Kind

  "Massimilla Doni" by Honore de Balzac, translated by Clara Bell and James Waring, 1839.

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• Constancy will always be the genius of love, the indication of that strength which constitutes the poet. A man should possess all women in his wife, like those squalid poetasters of the seventeenth century who made fair Irises and dazzling Chloes of their lowly Manons.

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  Men, Wife, Irises

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• Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.

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  Forgiveness, Bears, Debtors

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• In France everything is a matter for jest. People make quips about the scaffold, about Napoleon's defeat on the banks of The Beresina, and about the barricades of our revolutions. So, at the assizes of the Last Judgment, there will always be a Frenchmen to crack a joke.

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  People, Cracks, Matter

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• Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability.

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  Special, Riches, Gains

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• A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

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  Men, Vanity, Dupes

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• How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow.

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  Mother, Children, Thoughtful

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• The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

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  Men, Mind, Genius

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

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• Like evil, sublimity is also contagious.

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  Evil, Contagious, Sublimity

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• Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.

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  Two, Gowns, Balls

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• We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner side of human nature. This inner side is God's; the outer side belongs to men.

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  Struggle, Men, Long

  "Seraphita". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1835.

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• Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.

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  Dream, Inspire, Misfortunes

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• Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.

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  Role Models, Envy, Emulation

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• If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous hopes, and commit sin only after wandering through a maze of sorrows.

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  Sorrow, Mazes, Sin

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• Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.

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  Compassion, Feelings, Curiosity

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• Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.

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  Thinking, Thoughtful, Intuition

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