Honore de Balzac Quotes - Page 4

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• The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.

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  Heart, Winning, Opportunity

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• Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

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  Lying, Greatest Fear, Anticipation

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• Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

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  Marriage, Fighting, Monsters

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• Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

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  Men, Despair, Literature

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• Cruelty and fear shake hands together.

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  Fear, Hands, Together

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• First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

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  Funny Love, First Love, Love Is

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• No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

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  Funny, Marriage, Witty

  No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. The Physiology of Marriage Meditation V, Aphorism 28

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• True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

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  True Love, Love Is, What Is Love

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• Love is the poetry of the senses.

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  Love, Valentines Day, Valentine's Day

  Honore De Balzac (2005). “The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou”, p.56, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

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  Husband, Wife, Yoke

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.92, The Floating Press

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• It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

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  Love, Men, Play

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• God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

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  Life, Drama, Men

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• Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation.

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  Love Is, Cost, Devastation

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• Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.

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  Fortune

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• Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance kills the happiest passion.

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  Drama, Passion, Gestures

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• Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

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  Beauty, Falling In Love, Stupid

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• Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.

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  Love, Gratitude, Love Is

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• Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

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  Art, Effort, Counterfeit

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• Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.

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  Coffee, Espresso, People

  "Daily Rituals" by Mason Currey, www.slate.com. April 19, 2013.

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• Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.

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  Struggle, Fate, Men

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• Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.

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  Angel, Men, Compassion

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• When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.

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  Husband, Betrayal, Want

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• A mother who is really a mother is never free.

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  Mothers Day, Parenting, Parenthood

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

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• God reveals Himself, unfailingly, to the solitary, thoughtful seeker

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  God, Thoughtful, Seekers

  "Seraphita: Works of Balzac".

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• He who best knows the world will love it least.

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  World, Knows

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