Honore de Balzac Quotes - Page 5

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• I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.

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  Love, Romantic, Thinking Of You

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• Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.

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  Heart, Climbing, Hatred

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• We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.

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  Solitude, Moral, Resources

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• Six weeks with a fever is an eternity.

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  Fever, Six, Eternity

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• No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.

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  Love, Yield, Natural

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• Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!

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  Men, Trying, Want

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• Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.

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  Men, Instinct, Born

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• Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.

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  Events, Outcomes, Individual

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• I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

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  Race, Literature, Finance

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• A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.

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  Husband, Wife, Lovers

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• Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.

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  Marriage, Men, Feelings

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• People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

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  People, Unhappiness, Unfortunate

  "Modeste Mignon". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1844.

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• Only when one has learned to acknowledge that wiser minds have made better words to come out of our mouths may we truly, then, begin to speak them.

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  Mind, Mouths, May

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• Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

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  Leadership, Sports, Power

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• Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

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  Silence, Feelings, Wells

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.300, The Floating Press

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• A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

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  Marriage, Husband, Genius

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• The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

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  Spiritual, Flower, Intuition

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• Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Confidence

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• Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

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  Jealousy, Fear, Heart

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• A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

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  Men, Literature, Poor

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

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• There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.

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  Temptation, Cures

  Honore de Balzac (2006). “Le Pere Goriot: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.217, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There are words which cut like steel.

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  Cutting, Steel

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• One hour of love has a whole life in it.

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  Hours, Whole Life, One Hour

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.217, The Floating Press

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• Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

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  Mother, Brother, Kings

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• How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?

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  Yield, Envy, Vices

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